Kinship asymmetries and the divided self.
June 28th, 2008 | by admin |Kinship asymmetries and the divided self.
Imprinted genes are predicted to affect interactions among relatives. Therefore, variant alleles at imprinted loci are promising candidates for playing a causal role in disorders of social behavior. The effects of imprinted genes evolved in the context of patterns of asymmetric relatedness that existed within social groups of our ancestors.
Haig D.
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. dhaig@oeb.harvard.edu.