Dopamine D4 receptor gene associated with fairness preference in ultimatum game

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Zhong, Songfa ^a,c   Israel, Salomon ^b   Shalev, Idan ^b   Xue, Hong ^c   Ebstein, Richard P ^a,b   Chew, Soo Hong ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ADULT; GAME; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D4; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149491154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013765     Document Type: Article

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