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The Application of a Human Personality Test to Chimpanzees and Survey of Polymorphism in Genes Relating to Neurotransmitters and Hormones
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Comparison of androgen receptor CAG and GGN repeat length polymorphism in humans and apes
Two polymorphic trinucleotide repeats of human androgen receptor gene (hAR), CAG and GGN which encode glutamine and glycine, have been shown to be associated with human diseases. The number of repeats ranges from...
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Longitudinal Structure of a Unit-group of Bonobos: Male Philopatry and Possible Fusion of Unit-groups
Bonobos and chimpanzees have a male-philopatric social structure (Nishida 1979, Itani 1985, Goodall 1986, Wrangham 1986, Pusey and Packer 1987, Kano 1992, Wallis 1997, Reynolds 2005, Furuichi 2006). Demographi...
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Interspecies and intraspecies variations in the serotonin transporter gene intron 3 VNTR in nonhuman primates
A variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) polymorphism based on a 16 or 17-bp unit has been reported in the third intron of the human serotonin transporter gene (5-HTT). VNTRs have been shown to affect the transc...