DAT1 polymorphism is associated with risk taking in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Mata, Rui ^a   Hau, Robin ^a   Papassotiropoulos, Andreas ^a,b,c   Hertwig, Ralph ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BALLOON ANALOGUE RISK TASK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK-TAKING; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862492211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039135     Document Type: Article

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