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Dopamine transporter gene susceptibility to methylation is associated with impulsivity in nonhuman primates.
Journal of neurophysiology - 1 Nov 2014
Rajala Abigail Z, Zaitoun Ismail, Henriques Jeffrey B, Converse Alexander K, Murali Dhanabalan, Epstein Miles L, Populin Luis C
Abstract excerpt
Impulsivity, the predisposition to act without regard for negative consequences, is a characteristic of several psychiatric disorders and is thought to result in part from genetic variation in the untranslated region of the dopamine transporter (DAT) gene. As the exact link between genetic mutations and impulsivity has not been established, we used oculomotor behavior to characterize rhesus monkeys as impulsive...
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