Role of novelty seeking personality traits as mediator of the association between COMT and onset age of drug use in Chinese heroin dependent patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Li, Ting ^a   Yu, Shunying ^a   Du, Jiang ^a   Chen, Hanhui ^a   Jiang, Haifeng ^a   Xu, Ke ^b   Fu, Yingmei ^a   Wang, Dongxiang ^a   Zhao, Min ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMT GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOVELTY SEEKING PERSONALITY TRAIT; ONSET AGE; PERSONALITY; RECEPTOR GENE; REHABILITATION CARE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ASIAN; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CHINA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 80051728033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022923     Document Type: Article

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