Variation in DRD2 dopamine gene predicts Extraverted personality

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 468, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 234-237

  Smillie, Luke D ^a   Cooper, Andrew J ^a   Proitsi, Petroula ^b   Powell, John F ^b   Pickering, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ANKK1; Dopamine; DRD2; EPQ; Extraversion; TaqIA

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN ANKK1; TAQ POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72249109163     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.10.095     Document Type: Article

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