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
Serotonin transporter gene regulatory region polymorphism and anxiety-related traits in the Japanese
β Scribed by Nakamura, Toshiaki; Muramatsu, Taro; Ono, Yutaka; Matsushita, Sachio; Higuchi, Susumu; Mizushima, Hiroko; Yoshimura, Kimio; Kanba, Shigenobu; Asai, Masahiro
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 12 KB
- Volume
- 74
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
- DOI
- 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19970919)74:5<544::aid-ajmg18>3.0.co;2-c
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