Molecular genetics and antisocial behavior: Where do we stand?

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 239, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1514-1523

  Iofrida, Caterina ^a   Palumbo, Sara ^a   Pellegrini, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

antisocial behavior; COMT; DRD4; MAOA; molecular biology; SLC6A4

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); COMT PROTEIN, HUMAN; DRD4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MONOAMINE OXIDASE A, HUMAN; SLC6A4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D4; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84910072481     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1535370214529508     Document Type: Article

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