Human family and twin studies have established considerable heritable components in personality traits as assessed by selfreport questionnaires. Recently, an association between a functional polymorphism in the upstream regulatory region of the serotonin transporter gene and neuroticismrelated perso
Gene for the serotonin transporter and ADHD: No association with two functional polymorphisms
β Scribed by Karen G. Wigg; Amandeep Takhar; Abel Ickowicz; Rosemary Tannock; James L. Kennedy; Tejaswee Pathare; Molly Malone; Russell Schachar; Cathy L. Barr
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 68 KB
- Volume
- 141B
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4841
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