Genetics of aggression

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 145-164

  Anholt, Robert R H ^a   MacKay, Trudy F C ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

AGGRESSION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPERAGGRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL; NEUROGENETICS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

AGGRESSION; ALLELES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENES, INSECT; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUS;

EID: 84870218130     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110711-155514     Document Type: Review

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