Toxoplasmosis-Associated Difference in Intelligence and Personality in Men Depends on Their Rhesus Blood Group but Not ABO Blood Group

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Flegr, Jaroslav ^a   Preiss, Marek ^b   Klose, Jiří ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^c CENTRAL MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGREEABLENESS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP RH; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EXTRAVERSION; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; HYSTERIA; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; N 70 QUESTIONNAIRE; NEO PI R QUESTIONNAIRE; NEUROSIS; OPENNESS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHOBIA; PSYCHASTHENIA; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPONSE TIME; SEROLOGY; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84876053368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061272     Document Type: Article

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