Season of birth and dopamine receptor gene associations with impulsivity, sensation seeking and reproductive behaviors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Eisenberg, Dan T A ^a,b   Campbell, Benjamin ^c   MacKillop, James ^b,d   Lum, J Koji ^b   Wilson, David S ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BARRATT IMPULSIVITY SCALE; DELAY DISCOUNTING TASK; EYSENCK IMPULSIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSATION SEEKING SCALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SOCIOSEXUAL ORIENTATION SCALE; WINTER; BIRTH; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; SENSATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; PARTURITION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SENSATION;

EID: 43249127285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001216     Document Type: Article

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