Association of verbal and figural creative achievement with polymorphism in the human serotonin transporter gene

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 463, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 154-157

  Volf, Nina V ^a   Kulikov, Alexander V ^b   Bortsov, Cyril U ^a   Popova, Nina K ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

5 HTTLPR polymorphism; Human; Serotonin transporter; Verbal and figural creativity

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOLUNTEER;

ALLELES; CREATIVENESS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68449086719     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.07.070     Document Type: Article

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