Study of the association between the serotonin transporter gene regulatory region polymorphism and personality traits in a Japanese population

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 263, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 205-207

  Kumakiri, Chikara ^a   Kodama, Kazuhiro ^a   Shimizu, Eiji ^a   Yamanouchi, Naoto ^a   Okada, Shin ichi ^a   Noda, Shingo ^a   Okamoto, Hideki ^a   Sato, Toshio ^a   Shirasawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cooperativeness; Genetics; Personality; Polymorphism; Serotonin transporter

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICAL STUDENT; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADULT; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0033605706     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00098-1     Document Type: Article

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