A critical reanalysis of the relationship between genomics and well-being

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 35, 2014, Pages 12705-12709

  Brown, Nicholas J L ^a   MacDonald, Douglas A ^b   Samanta, Manoj Pratim ^c   Friedman, Harris L ^d,e   Coyne, James C ^f,g  

^a New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY   (United States)

^c Systemix Institute   (United States)

^d SAYBROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Genomic perspectives; Leukocytes; Transcriptional response

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOMETRY;

EPIGENETICS; GENOMIC PERSPECTIVES; LEUKOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSE;

ARTIFACTS; EPIGENOMICS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOMETRICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84907228125     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407057111     Document Type: Article

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