No evidence for an association of affective disorders with high- or low-activity allele of catechol-o-methyltransferase gene

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 282-285

  Kunugi, Hiroshi ^a,c   Vallada, Homero P ^a   Hoda, Farzana ^a   Kirov, George ^a   Gill, Michael ^b   Aitchison, Kathy J ^a   Ball, David ^a   Arranz, Maria J ^a   Murray, Robin M ^a   Collier, David A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

affective disorder; association study; bipolar disorder; catechol o methyltransferase; genetics; unipolar depression

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALLELES; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0030793218     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00366-6     Document Type: Article

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