Role of novelty seeking personality traits as mediator of the association between COMT and onset age of drug use in Chinese heroin dependent patients.

Personality traits such as novelty seeking (NS) are associated with substance dependence but the mechanism underlying this association remains uncertain.Previous studies have focused on the role of the dopamine pathway.Examine the relationships between allelic variants of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene, NS personality traits, and age

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The complete mitochondrial genome of Thryssa vitrirostris (Engraulinae, Engranlidae, Clupeoidei) and phylogenetic studies of Clupeoidei

The complete mitochondrial genome of T.vitrirostris was 16,975bp in length, and it contained a typically conserved structure including 13 Pod Holder Drip Tray protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, and 1 control region (D-loop).Except ND6 and 8 tRNA genes, all other mitochondrial genes are encoded on the heavy strand, t

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