Genetic analyses of emotionality.
Quantitative genetic research on emotionality in animals and humans consistently points to genetic influence. Molecular genetic research is beginning to identify quantitative trait loci that are associated with the genetically related emotional domains of neuroticism, anxiety and depression.
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Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, 113 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF, UK. t.eley@iop.bpmf.ac.uk
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D000818:Animals; D001007:Anxiety / Q000235:genetics*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000235:genetics*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000235:genetics*