Genome-wide analyses for personality traits identify six genomic loci and show correlations with psychiatric disorders

Nature Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 152-156

  Lo, Min Tzu ^a   Hinds, David A ^b   Tung, Joyce Y ^b   Franz, Carol ^c   Fan, Chun Chieh ^a,d   Wang, Yunpeng ^e,f,g   Smeland, Olav B ^f,g   Schork, Andrew ^a,d   Holland, Dominic ^e   Kauppi, Karolina ^a,h   Sanyal, Nilotpal ^a   Escott Price, Valentina ⁱ   Smith, Daniel J ^j   O'Donovan, Michael ⁱ   Stefansson, Hreinn ^k   Bjornsdottir, Gyda ^k   Thorgeirsson, Thorgeir E ^k   Stefansson, Kari ^k   McEvoy, Linda K ^a   Dale, Anders M ^a,c,e   Andreassen, Ole A ^f,g   Chen, Chi Hua ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 23andMe Inc ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^g OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^h UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^k DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHADL GENE; CHROMOSOME 8P; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; DEPRESSION; EXTRAVERSION; GBE1 GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTROVERSION; L3MBTL2 GENE; LINC00461 GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MTMR9 GENE; NEUROSIS; PCDH15 GENE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RBFOX1 GENE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; WSCD2 GENE; XKR6 GENE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENETIC MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85002374791     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3736     Document Type: Article

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