Invited commentary: Personality phenotype and mortality - New avenues in genetic, social, and clinical epidemiology

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 178, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 676-678

  Chapman, Benjamin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

all cause mortality; Big Five personality traits; meta analysis; personality

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HEALTH POLICY; MEDICINE; META-ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PHENOTYPE;

COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSCIENCE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WORK;

ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY; BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS; META-ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; PERSONALITY;

EID: 84883470446     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt169     Document Type: Review

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