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Mother-Infant Rhesus Macaques, Serotonin And The Serotonin Transporter Gene, Jenna Jackson, Dr. James Dee Higley
Mother-Infant Rhesus Macaques, Serotonin And The Serotonin Transporter Gene, Jenna Jackson, Dr. James Dee Higley
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The primary purpose of this project is to assess how a mother’s genotype sets the environment for the infants’ genotype to react in a gene by environment interaction, which affects the infants’ serotonin functioning. In order to effectively study a gene by environment interaction, extensive control over the environment is needed, and rhesus macaque monkeys were used as subjects.