The psychiatric vulnerability gene CACNA1C and its sex-specific relationship with personality traits, resilience factors and depressive symptoms in the general population

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 607-613

  Strohmaier, J ^a   Amelang, M ^a   Hothorn, L A ^b   Witt, S H ^a   Nieratschker, V ^a   Gerhard, D ^b   Meier, S ^a   Wust S ^a,c   Frank, J ^a   Loerbroks, A ^a   Rietschel, M ^a   Sturmer T ^a,d   Schulze, T G ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d IL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CACNA1C; depression; neuroticism; personality; resilience; sex specific

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN CACNA1C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANGER; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; ENDOPHENOTYPE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROSIS; OPTIMISM; PERSONALITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSE OF COHERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84876673658     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2012.53     Document Type: Article

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