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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Dis. 2011 Apr 22;45(1):115–121. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2011.04.013

Figure 1. Diagram of multiple potential subcomponent vectors contributing to the observed behavioral phenomenon of alcohol dependence.

Figure 1

The figure illustrates the premise that observed behavioral phenotypes studied in humans or animal models are actually made up of multiple behavioral subcomponents (e.g. endophenotypes) that are in turn controlled by neural networks. The gene networks derived by genomic studies are a syncytium of gene regulation events occurring within multiple cells comprising a given neural network.