Genome-wide linkage analysis of multiple measures of neuroticism of 2 large cohorts from Australia and the Netherlands

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 649-658

  Wray, Naomi R ^a   Middeldorp, Christel M ^b   Birley, Andrew J ^a   Gordon, Scott D ^a   Sullivan, Patrick F ^d   Visscher, Peter M ^a   Nyholt, Dale R ^a   Willemsen, Gonneke ^b   De Geus, Eco J C ^b   Slagboom, P Eline ^c   Montgomery, Grant W ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NETHERLANDS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 44649105743     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.65.6.649     Document Type: Article

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