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Tridimensional personality questionnaire trait of harm avoidance (anxiety proneness) is linked to a locus on chromosome 8p21.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 1 Feb 2003
Zohar Ada H, Dina Christian, Rosolio Naama, Osher Yamima, Gritsenko Inga, Bachner-Melman Rachel, Benjamin Jonathan, Belmaker Robert H, Ebstein Richard P
Abstract excerpt
Human personality traits are moderately heritable but only recently have specific polymorphisms been associated with particular personality dimensions especially anxiety-related and novelty-seeking traits. The first genome-wide scan for personality traits was recently carried out by Cloninger et al. [1998: Am J Med Genet 81:313-317] and his colleagues and they reported that a region on 8p21 showed linkage to TPQ...
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