Pathways to Age of Onset of Heroin Use: A Structural Model Approach Exploring the Relationship of the COMT Gene, Impulsivity and Childhood Trauma

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Li, Ting ^a   Du, Jiang ^a   Yu, Shunying ^a   Jiang, Haifeng ^a   Fu, Yingmei ^a   Wang, Dongxiang ^a   Sun, Haiming ^a   Chen, Hanhui ^a   Zhao, Min ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COMT GENE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; DSM-IV; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; AGE OF ONSET; ALLELES; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INPATIENTS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84869127226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048735     Document Type: Article

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