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Examining impulsivity as an endophenotype using a behavioral approach: a DRD2 TaqI A and DRD4 48-bp VNTR association study

Dan TA Eisenberg* 1,2,4 email, James MacKillop* 3,5 email, Meera Modi1 email, Joshua Beauchemin4 email, David Dang4 email, Stephen A Lisman3 email, J Koji Lum1,2,4 email and David S Wilson1,2 email

1State University of New York at Binghamton, Biology Department, Binghamton, NY, USA

2State University of New York at Binghamton, Anthropology Department, Binghamton, NY, USA

3State University of New York at Binghamton, Psychology Department, Binghamton, NY, USA

4State University of New York at Binghamton, Laboratory of Evolutionary Anthropology and Health, Binghamton, NY, USA

5Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

Behavioral and Brain Functions 2007, 3:2doi:10.1186/1744-9081-3-2

Published: 10 January 2007

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DRD2 TaqI A and DRD4 48 bp VNTR genotyping protocols

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Delay discounting protocol

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Alternative DRD4 parsing method influences on DRD2 × DRD4 ANOVA to predict impulsivity phenotypes. This supplement explores parsing DRD4 using three alternative methods, and finds similar results to that of the main manuscript.

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