Excess tyrosine hydroxylase restriction fragment length polymorphism homozygosity in unipolar but not bipolar patients: A preliminary report

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 305-308

  Souery, Daniel ^a   Lipp, Olivier ^b   Mahieu, Brigitte ^b   Mendelbaum, Karin ^b   De Bruyn, An ^b   De Maertelaer, Viviane ^b   Van Broeckhoven, Christine ^b   Mendlewicz, Julien ^b  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Affective disorders; Association study; Bipolar affective disorder; Tyrosine hydroxylase gene; Unipolar affective disorder

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030586838     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(96)00038-8     Document Type: Article

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