Peripheral SLC6A4 DNA methylation is associated with in vivo measures of human brain serotonin synthesis and childhood physical aggression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Dongsha ^a,b   Szyf, Moshe ^b   Benkelfat, Chawki ^b   Provençal, Nadine ^b   Turecki, Gustavo ^b   Caramaschi, Doretta ^a,b   Côté, Sylvana M ^a   Vitaro, Frank ^a,c   Tremblay, Richard E ^a,c,d   Booij, Linda ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL TYPE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LIMITED HIGH PHYSICAL AGGRESSION; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; GENE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PROMOTER REGION; PYROSEQUENCING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROTONIN METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLC6A4 GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; BRAIN; DNA METHYLATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; THIOPHENES;

EID: 84862667231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039501     Document Type: Article

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