The genetics of human personality

S Sanchez‐Roige, JC Gray, J MacKillop… - Genes, Brain and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Personality traits are the relatively enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that
reflect the tendency to respond in certain ways under certain circumstances. Twin and family …

Glypicans and heparan sulfate in synaptic development, neural plasticity, and neurological disorders

K Kamimura, N Maeda - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) are components of the cell surface and
extracellular matrix, which bear long polysaccharides called heparan sulfate (HS) attached …

Astrocyte glypicans 4 and 6 promote formation of excitatory synapses via GluA1 AMPA receptors

NJ Allen, ML Bennett, LC Foo, GX Wang… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
In the developing central nervous system (CNS), the control of synapse number and function
is critical to the formation of neural circuits. We previously demonstrated that astrocyte …

Heritability estimates of the Big Five personality traits based on common genetic variants

RA Power, M Pluess - Translational psychiatry, 2015 - nature.com
According to twin studies, the Big Five personality traits have substantial heritable
components explaining 40–60% of the variance, but identification of associated genetic …

Astrocyte-secreted glypican 4 regulates release of neuronal pentraxin 1 from axons to induce functional synapse formation

I Farhy-Tselnicker, ACM van Casteren, A Lee… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
The generation of precise synaptic connections between developing neurons is critical to
the formation of functional neural circuits. Astrocyte-secreted glypican 4 induces formation of …

Personalized immunotherapy against several neuronal and brain tumors

S Kuttruff-coqui, T Weinschenk, J Fritsche… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
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Intergenerational neural mediators of early-life anxious temperament

AS Fox, JA Oler, AJ Shackman… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the heritability of neural systems linked to psychopathology is not sufficient to
implicate them as intergenerational neural mediators. By closely examining how individual …

[HTML][HTML] Unbiased discovery of glypican as a receptor for LRRTM4 in regulating excitatory synapse development

J de Wit, ML O'Sullivan, JN Savas, G Condomitti… - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
Leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins have recently been identified as important regulators of
synapse development and function, but for many LRR proteins the ligand-receptor …

Heparan sulfate proteoglycans as emerging players in synaptic specificity

G Condomitti, J De Wit - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Neural circuits consist of distinct neuronal cell types connected in specific patterns. The
specificity of these connections is achieved in a series of sequential developmental steps …

Common SNPs explain some of the variation in the personality dimensions of neuroticism and extraversion

AAE Vinkhuyzen, NL Pedersen, J Yang, SH Lee… - Translational …, 2012 - nature.com
The personality traits of neuroticism and extraversion are predictive of a number of social
and behavioural outcomes and psychiatric disorders. Twin and family studies have reported …