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Lack of Association Between COMT and Working Memory in a Population-Based Cohort of Healthy Young Adults

The Val158Met polymorphism of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene is an important regulator of dopamine in the prefrontal cortex, an area critical to working memory. Working memory deficits are present in several psychiatric disorders, and there is wide variation in working memory capacity...

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Autores principales: Wardle, Margaret C, de Wit, Harriet, Penton-Voak, Ian, Lewis, Glyn, Munafò, Marcus R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3656369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23337869
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2013.24