Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025274
Title: Avpr1a variant associated with preschoolers' lower altruistic behavior
Authors: Avinun, R.
Israel, S.
Shalev, I.
Gritsenko, I.
Bornstein, G.
Ebstein, R.P. 
Knafo, A.
Issue Date: 28-Sep-2011
Citation: Avinun, R., Israel, S., Shalev, I., Gritsenko, I., Bornstein, G., Ebstein, R.P., Knafo, A. (2011-09-28). Avpr1a variant associated with preschoolers' lower altruistic behavior. PLoS ONE 6 (9) : -. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025274
Abstract: The genetic origins of altruism, defined here as a costly act aimed to benefit non-kin individuals, have not been examined in young children. However, previous findings concerning adults pointed at the arginine vasopressin receptor 1A (AVPR1A) gene as a possible candidate. AVPR1A has been associated with a range of behaviors including aggressive, affiliative and altruistic phenotypes, and recently a specific allele (327 bp) of one of its promoter region polymorphisms (RS3) has been singled out in particular. We modeled altruistic behavior in preschoolers using a laboratory-based economic paradigm, a modified dictator game (DG), and tested for association between DG allocations and the RS3 "target allele." Using both population and family-based analyses we show a significant link between lower allocations and the RS3 "target allele," associating it, for the first time, with a lower proclivity toward altruistic behavior in children. This finding helps further the understanding of the intricate mechanisms underlying early altruistic behavior. © 2011 Avinun et al.
Source Title: PLoS ONE
URI: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/49902
ISSN: 19326203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025274
Appears in Collections:Staff Publications
Elements

Show full item record
Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormatAccess SettingsVersion 
2011-AVPR1A_Variant_Associated_with_Preschoolers’-published.PDF101.88 kBAdobe PDF

OPEN

PublishedView/Download

Google ScholarTM

Check

Altmetric


Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.