Avpr1a variant associated with preschoolers' lower altruistic behavior

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Avinun, Reut ^a   Israel, Salomon ^a   Shalev, Idan ^a   Gritsenko, Inga ^b   Bornstein, Gary ^a,c   Ebstein, Richard P ^a,d   Knafo, Ariel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HERZOG HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^c Center for the Study of Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory   (Israel)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; AVPR1A GENE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROMOTER REGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TWINS; ALLELE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE;

VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

ALLELES; ALTRUISM; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN;

EID: 80053242880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025274     Document Type: Article

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