A promoter variant in the chitinase 3-like 1 gene is associated with serum YKL-40 level and personality trait

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 513, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 204-208

  Yamamori, Hidenaga ^a   Hashimoto, Ryota ^a,b   Ohi, Kazutaka ^a,b   Yasuda, Yuka ^a,b   Fukumoto, Motoyuki ^a,b   Kasahara, Emiko ^a   Sekiyama, Atsuo ^a   Umeda Yano, Satomi ^a   Okada, Takeya ^a,b   Iwase, Masao ^a   Kazui, Hiroaki ^a   Ito, Akira ^a   Takeda, Masatoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chitinase 3 like 1 (CHI3L1) gene; Schizophrenia; Self transcendence; Temperament and character inventory (TCI); YKL 40

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; CHITINASE 3 LIKE 1; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN YKL 40; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHARACTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPANESE; MENTAL PATIENT; PERSONALITY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF TRANSCENDENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL STATUS; SYMPTOM; TEMPERAMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADIPOKINES; ADULT; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LECTINS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84859007178     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.02.039     Document Type: Article

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