A strategy to home-in on polygenes influencing susceptibility to anxiety

Human Psychopharmacology

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages

  Gray, Jeffrey A ^a   Flint, Jonathan ^b   Dawson, Gerard R ^c   Fulker, David W ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Merck Sharp & Dohme Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal model; Anxiety; Emotionality; Neuroticism; Polygenes; Quantitative trait locus (QTL)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMOTIONALITY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INBRED STRAIN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NEUROSIS; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAT; STATISTICS; SYNTENY;

EID: 0032702826     PISSN: 08856222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1077(199908)14:1+3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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