Blushing propensity in social anxiety disorder: Influence of serotonin transporter gene variation

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 663-666

  Domschke, Katharina ^a   Stevens, Stephan ^a   Beck, Beate ^a   Baffa, Anna ^a   Hohoff, Christa ^a   Deckert, Jürgen ^b   Gerlach, Alexander L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 HTTLPR; Anxiety disorder; BPS; Intermediate phenotype; Physiological marker; Polymorphism; Rs25531

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS;

ADULT; BLUSHING; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 67449119131     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: 14351463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-008-0090-z     Document Type: Article

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