Association of COMT val158met and DRD2 G>T genetic polymorphisms with individual differences in motor learning and performance in female young adults

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 628-640

  Noohi, Fatemeh ^a   Boyden, Nate B ^a   Kwak, Youngbin ^a   Humfleet, Jennifer ^a   Burke, David T ^c   Müller, Martijn L T M ^c   Bohnen, Nico I ^a,c   Seidler, Rachael D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

COMT; DRD2; Individual differences; Sequence learning; Visuomotor adaptation

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; GLUTAMINE; METHIONINE; THREONINE; VALINE;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MOTOR LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

COMT; DRD2; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; SEQUENCE LEARNING; VISUOMOTOR ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTOR SKILLS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893422762     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00457.2013     Document Type: Article

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