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Roughly 2% of humans suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder, but a lack of animal models has impeded research into this condition. Could a genetically engineered mouse model provide an exciting lead?

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  1. Steven E. Hyman is in the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. seh@harvard.edu,

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Hyman, S. Obsessed with grooming. Nature 448, 871–872 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448871a

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