Individual Differences in Childhood Behavior Disorders Associated With Epigenetic Modulation of the Cortisol Receptor Gene

Child Development

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1311-1320

  Dadds, Mark R ^a   Moul, Caroline ^a   Hawes, David J ^a   Mendoza Diaz, Antonio ^a   Brennan, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; NR3C1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROMOTER REGION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 84941260741     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12391     Document Type: Article

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