Haplotypes of dopamine and serotonin transporter genes are associated with antisocial personality disorder in alcoholics

Psychiatric Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 140-152

  Reese, Jörn ^a   Kraschewski, Adrian ^b   Anghelescu, Ion ^b   Winterer, Georg ^d   Schmidt, Lutz G ^e   Gallinat, Jürgen ^b   Rüschendorf, Franz ^c   Rommelspacher, Hans ^b   Wernicke, Catrin ^b  

^a Psychosomatische Fachklinik Fontane Klinik Motzen   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Gemeinschaftspraxis   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcoholism typology; antisocial personality disorder; dopamine transporter; endophenotypes; genetics; serotonin transporter; SLC6A3; SLC6A4

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FAMILY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLICS; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 77954887533     PISSN: 09558829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YPG.0b013e32833a1ecb     Document Type: Article

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