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5/13/2008

Ensembl GeneTree for NRXN1/NRXN3

Significant association of the neurexin-1 gene (NRXN1) with nicotine dependence in European- and African-American smokers

http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/17/11/1569?rss=1

The Ensembl Compara GeneTree for NRXN1 shows:

http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/genetreeview?db=core;gene=NRXN1

that the NRXN1 subfamily is closely related to the NRXN3 subfamily, and there is a third member, NRXN2, that is also related to the other two. The TreeFam tree shows NRXN2 on top of the tree:

http://www.treefam.org/cgi-bin/TFinfo.pl?ac=TF321302

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Ensembl GeneTree for NRXN1/NRXN3

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