Author, as appears in the article.: Voltas, Nuria; Aparicio, Estefania; Arija, Victoria; Canals, Josefa
Department: Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques Psicologia
URV's Author/s: Aparicio Llopis, Estefania / Arija Val, Maria Victoria / Canals Sans, Josefa / Voltas Moreso, Núria
Keywords: Self report Psychopathology Promoter regions, genetic Polymorphism, genetic Phobic disorders Personality inventory Monoamine oxidase Minisatellite repeats Maoa-uvntr Male Longitudinal studies Life change events Humans Genotype Gender Female Depressive disorder Anxiety disorders Anxiety Alleles Adolescents Adolescent maoa-uvntr gender anxiety adolescents
Abstract: The polymorphism upstream of the gene for monoamine oxidase A (MAOA-uVNTR) is reported to be an important enzyme involved in human physiology and behavior. With a sample of 228 early-adolescents from a community sample (143 girls) and adjusting for environmental variables, we examined the influence of MAOA-uVNTR alleles on the scores obtained in the Screen for Childhood Anxiety and Related Emotional Disorders and in the Child Symptom Inventory-4. Our results showed that girls with the high-activity MAOA allele had higher scores for generalized and total anxiety than their low-activity peers, whereas boys with the low-activity allele had higher social phobia scores than boys with the high-activity allele. Results for conduct disorder symptoms did not show a significant relationship between the MAOA alleles and the presence of these symptoms. Our findings support a possible association, depending on gender, between the MAOA-uVNTR polymorphism and psychopathological disorders such as anxiety, which affects high rates of children and adolescents.
Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Psychology, clinical Psychology Psychiatry and mental health Psychiatry Psicología Nutrição Medicina ii Medicina i General medicine Educação física Clinical psychology Ciencias sociales Ciências biológicas ii
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: nuria.voltas@urv.cat estefania.aparicio@urv.cat josefa.canals@urv.cat victoria.arija@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-8855-0282 0000-0003-0542-0015 0000-0002-6209-9558 0000-0002-1758-0975
Record's date: 2025-02-19
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Paper original source: Journal Of Anxiety Disorders. 31 65-72
APA: Voltas, Nuria; Aparicio, Estefania; Arija, Victoria; Canals, Josefa (2015). Association study of monoamine oxidase-A gene promoter polymorphism (MAOA-uVNTR) with self-reported anxiety and other psychopathological symptoms in a community sample of early adolescents. Journal Of Anxiety Disorders, 31(), 65-72. DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2015.02.004
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2015
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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