Contributions of dopamine-related genes and environmental factors to highly sensitive personality: A multi-step neuronal system-level approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Chunhui ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^b   Moyzis, Robert ^c   Stern, Hal ^d   He, Qinghua ^e   Li, He ^f   Li, Jin ^a   Zhu, Bi ^a   Dong, Qi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CHARACTER STATE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINE NEUROTRANSMITTER GENE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EGO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE PERSONALITY; HUMAN; LIFE STRESS; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RATING SCALE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

DATABASES, GENETIC; DOPAMINE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; NEURONS; PERSONALITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960213801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021636     Document Type: Article

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