Polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter and monoamine oxidase A genes and their relationship to personality traits measured by the temperament and character inventory and NEO five-factor inventory in healthy volunteers

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 174-181

  Samochowiec, Jerzy ^a,d   Syrek, Szymon ^a   Michał, Parus ^a   Ryzewska Wódecka, Aneta ^a   Samochowiec, Agnieszka ^b   Horodnicki, Jan ^a   Zakrzewska, Marzena ^c   Kucharska Mazur, Jolanta ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d Department of Psychiatry ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

Monoamine oxidase A gene; NEO Five Factor Inventory; Personality traits; Serotonin transporter gene; Temperament and Character Inventory

Indexed keywords

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

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; TEMPERAMENT;

ADULT; ALLELES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHARACTER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; POLAND; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 4043069365     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079111     Document Type: Article

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