A functional variant of the serotonin transporter gene ((SLC6A4) moderates impulsive choice in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder boys and siblings

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 230-236

  Sonuga Barke, Edmund J S ^a,b   Kumsta, Robert ^a,i   Schlotz, Wolff ^a   Lasky Su, Jessica ^c   Marco, Rafaela ^d   Miranda, Ana ^d   Mulas, Fernando ^o   Oades, Robert D ^e   Banaschewski, Tobias ^f   Mueller, Ueli ^h   Andreou, Penny ⁱ   Christiansen, Hanna ^e,h,p,q   Gabriels, Isabel ^j   Uebel, Henrik ^l   Kuntsi, Jonna ⁱ   Franke, Barbara ^r   Buitelaar, Jan ^j   Ebstein, Richard ^k   Gill, Michael ^g   Anney, Richard ^g   Roeyers, Herbert ^b   Rothenberger, Aribert ^l   Sergeant, Joseph ^a,m   Steinhausen, Hans Christoph ^h,p,q   Asherson, Philip ⁱ   Faraone, Stephen V ⁿ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^g ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^j RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^k HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^m VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁿ SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^p AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^q UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^r RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

5 HTTLPR (SLC6A4); attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; DAT1 (SLC6A3); delay aversion; impulsivity

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER 1; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADOLESCENT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AVERSION; BASE PAIRING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVE DRIVE FOR IMMEDIATE REWARD; IMPULSIVENESS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 79960279189     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.01.040     Document Type: Article

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