Anxiety- and novelty seeking-related personality traits and serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 568-576

  Vormfelde, Stefan Viktor ^a   Hoell, Imke ^a   Tzvetkov, Mladen ^a   Jamrozinski, Katja ^b   Sehrt, Daniel ^a   Brockmöller, Jürgen ^a   Leibing, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender; Human personality; Neuroticism; Novelty seeking; SERT haplotypes; SERT polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CALCULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPERIENCE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REWARD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 33746802013     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2005.10.002     Document Type: Article

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