Oxytocin Pathway Genes: Evolutionary Ancient System Impacting on Human Affiliation, Sociality, and Psychopathology

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 174-184

  Feldman, Ruth ^a   Monakhov, Mikhail ^b   Pratt, Maayan ^a   Ebstein, Richard P ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

CD38; Epigenetics; Genetics; OXT; OXTR; Oxytocin

Indexed keywords

CD38 ANTIGEN; NEUROPHYSIN; NEUROPHYSIN I; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; OXYTOCIN;

AUTISM; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEPRESSION; EMPATHY; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; FRIENDSHIP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LIFE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS; STRUCTURAL GENE; THEORY OF MIND; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGY;

GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OXYTOCIN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84955617992     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.08.008     Document Type: Review

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