Gene by Culture Effects on Emotional Processing of Social Cues among East Asians and European Americans.

ABSTRACT: While Western cultures are more focused on individualization and self-expression, East Asian cultures promote interrelatedness. Largely unknown is how gene by culture interactions influence the degree to which individuals acquire culture, and the neurocircuitry underlying how social cues are processed. We sought to examine the interaction between DRD4 polymorphism and culture in the neural processing of social emotional cues. 19 Asian-born East Asian (AA) and 20 European American (EA) participants performed a shifted attention emotion appraisal functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) task, which probes implicit emotional processing and regulation in response to social emotional cues. Half of the participants in each group were DRD4 2- or 7-repeat allele (2R/7R) carriers. AA participan

SUBMITTER: Javanbakht A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6070862 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature