Personality and gene expression: Do individual differences exist in the leukocyte transcriptome?

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 72-82

  Vedhara, Kavita ^a   Gill, Sana ^a   Eldesouky, Lameese ^b   Campbell, Bruce K ^a   Arevalo, Jesusa M G ^c   Ma, Jeffrey ^c   Cole, Steven W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody; Antiviral; Gene expression; Immunity; Personality; Pro inflammatory

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; AGREEABLENESS; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEUKOCYTE; LONGEVITY; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OPENNESS; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS; THREAT; ADOLESCENT; GENETICS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; TRANSCRIPTOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922640035     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.10.028     Document Type: Article

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