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Association between allelic variation of serotonin transporter function and neuroticism in anxious cluster C personality disorders.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Mar 2004
Jacob Christian P, Strobel A, Hohenberger K, Ringel T, Gutknecht L, Reif A, Brocke B, Lesch K P
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Association between the low-activity variant of a polymorphism in the transcriptional control region of the serotonin transporter (5-HTTLPR) and neuroticism or harm avoidance was found in several but not all studies. The authors analyzed the influence of 5-HTTLPR variants on personality disorders. METHOD: Patients with personality disorders (N=320) and healthy volunteers (N=281) were studied with the...
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