Genetic influences on behavioral inhibition and anxiety in juvenile rhesus macaques

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 463-469

  Rogers, J ^a,b   Shelton, S E ^c   Shelledy, W ^a   Garcia, R ^a   Kalin, N H ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

5HTTLPR; Anxiety; Freezing; Heritability; Primate; Serotonin transporter; SLC6A4; Temperament; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOSTILITY; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; TEMPERAMENT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 42549098924     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2007.00381.x     Document Type: Article

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