Association of a regulatory polymorphism in the promoter region of the monoamine oxidase A gene with antisocial alcoholism

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-72

  Samochowiec, Jerzy ^a,b   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^c   Rottmann, Matthias ^b   Smolka, Michael ^b   Syagailo, Yana V ^c   Okladnova, Olga ^c   Rommelspacher, Hans ^b   Winterer, Georg ^b   Schmidt, Lutz G ^b   Sander, Thomas ^b  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; Antisocial personality; Genetics; MAOA gene; Promoter

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ALLELES; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033583502     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(99)00020-7     Document Type: Article

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