Relation of Shyness in Grade School Children to the Genotype for the Long Form of the Serotonin Transporter Promoter Region Polymorphism
American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 31 March 2003
Shoshana Arbelle, Jonathan Benjamin, Moshe Golin, I Kremer, Robert H. Belmaker, Richard P. Ebstein
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This study provisionally identifies a common genetic polymorphism, 5-HTTLPR, that modestly contributed to greater shyness scores in a nonclinical group of second-grade students.
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This study provisionally identifies a common genetic polymorphism, 5-HTTLPR, that modestly (effect size=7%) contributed to greater shyness scores in a nonclinical group of second-grade students. These first findings may be relevant to previous reports that have shown an association between the 5-HTTLPR long form and obsessive-compulsive disorder and autism.
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