title: Genomic imprinting: an obsession with depilatory mice.
abstract: Excessive grooming in mice has been promoted as a model of human obsessive-compulsive disorders. A recent paper adds Grb10 to the list of genes with effects on behavioral hair loss, with the added twist that this time the gene is imprinted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. dhaig@oeb.harvard.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Haig
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Úbeda
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D051383:GRB10 Adaptor Protein / Q000235:genetics; D018392:Genomic Imprinting; D006120:Grooming; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D051383:GRB10 Adaptor Protein