A regulatory variant of the human tryptophan hydroxylase-2 gene biases amygdala reactivity

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 884-888

  Brown, S M ^a   Peet, E ^a   Manuck, S B ^a   Williamson, D E ^a   Dahl, R E ^a   Ferrell, R E ^b   Hariri, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; fMRI; Serotonin; TPH2

Indexed keywords

TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; OXYGEN; TPH2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMYGDALA; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 27144531708     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001716     Document Type: Article

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