Serotonin transporter-linked promoter region polymorphism and personality traits in a Japanese population

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 337, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-16

  Umekage, Tadashi ^a   Tochigi, Mamoru ^a   Marui, Tetsuya ^a   Kato, Chieko ^a   Hibino, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Otani, Toshiyuki ^a   Kohda, Kazuhisa ^a   Kato, Nobumasa ^a   Sasaki, Tsukasa ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Department of Psychiatry   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Association study; Environment; Genotype; NEO Five Factor Inventory (NEO PI R); Personality; Serotonin transporter linked promoter region (5 HTTLPR)

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; OCCUPATION; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0037472356     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01291-0     Document Type: Article

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