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Role of the Serotonin Transporter Promoter Polymorphism in Anxiety-Related Traits
1 Oct 1998
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BACKGROUND: The heritability of interindividual variation in anxiety and other aspects of personality establishes that variants of genes influence these traits. A functional polymorphism in the promoter of the human serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4*C) was identified and found to be linked to an anxiety-related personality trait, Neuroticism. The polymorphism affects gene transcription and, ultimately, gene...
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