Risk-taking: Behind the warrior gene story

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1250, 2007, Pages

  Merriman, Tony ^a   Cameron, Vicky ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING);

AGGRESSIVENESS; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAUCASIAN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MAORI; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; NEW ZEALAND; POLYNESIA; RESEARCH ETHICS; VIOLENCE;

BEHAVIOR; ETHICS, RESEARCH; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; MALE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; NEW ZEALAND; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYNESIA; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33847769271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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