Associations between the COMT Val/Met polymorphism, early life stress, and personality among healthy adults

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 219-225

  Hoth, Karin F ^a,f   Paul, Robert H ^a   Williams, Leanne M ^b   Dobson Stone, Carol ^c   Todd, Elizabeth ^c   Schofield, Peter R ^c,d   Gunstad, John ^a   Cohen, Ronald A ^a   Gordon, Evian ^e  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e The Brain Resource International Database and the Brain Resource Company   (Australia)

^f Brown University Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Early life stress; Gene environment interaction

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHIONINE; VALINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

EID: 33745887174     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/nedt.2006.2.2.219     Document Type: Article

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