Sex modulates the associations between the COMT gene and personality traits

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1593-1598

  Chen, Chunhui ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^b   Moyzis, Robert ^c   Dong, Qi ^a   He, Qinghua ^a   Zhu, Bi ^a   Li, Jin ^a   Li, He ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Lessard, Jared ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

COMT; personality; sex

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AFFECT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CHINESE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNICITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERAMENT;

CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958850057     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.39     Document Type: Article

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