Article
Neurochemical individuality: genetic diversity among human dopamine and serotonin receptors and transporters.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Dec 2000
Cravchik A, Goldman D
Abstract excerpt
Behavioral variation in human beings encompasses wide differences in personality and susceptibility to psychiatric illness arising from both genotype and experience. Long-lasting behavioral differences generally have heritabilities of 30% or more, and such inheritance is ultimately attributable to functional variants of genes programming brain development and function. The sequencing of the human genome is...
Topics
- Brain
- Carrier Proteins
- Dopamine
- Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Humans
- Individuality
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Membrane Transport Proteins
- Mental Disorders
