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Is terrible driving all in the mind?

Study links poor motor skills to gene variant that limits brain protein

Posted: November 8, 2009 at 4:05 a.m.

One might never be able to feel sympathy for the speeding driver who swerves into another lane, barely missing the bumper, only to cut back into his original lane a quarter-mile later. But new research may at least help to understand him.

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