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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 18.
Published in final edited form as: Neurol Sci. 2011 Jun 1;32(4):10.1007/s10072-011-0633-1. doi: 10.1007/s10072-011-0633-1

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The construct of endophenotype. Endophenotypes are defined as intermediate traits lying on the causal chain closer to the genes than the disease. They are designed to identify genes and measure the effect of epigenetic and environmental factors