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Anxiety- and novelty seeking-related personality traits and serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms.
Journal of psychiatric research - 1 Sept 2006
Vormfelde Stefan Viktor, Hoell Imke, Tzvetkov Mladen, Jamrozinski Katja, Sehrt Daniel, Brockmöller Jürgen, Leibing Eric
Abstract excerpt
The affection of human personality by the promoter and the intron 2 polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene (SERT) is inconsistently reported. We aimed to clarify this situation by gender-specific haplotype-phenotype association. 98 women and 97 men completed the personality inventories NEO-PI-R and TPQ. The subjects were genotyped for the two SERT polymorphisms and the haplotypes were calculated. The...
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