Variability in the serotonin transporter gene and increased risk for major depression with melancholia

Human Genetics

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 319-322

  Gutiérrez, Bianca ^a   Pintor, Luis ^b   Gastó, Cristóbal ^b   Rosa, Araceli ^a   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^a   Vieta, Eduard ^b   Fañanás, Lourdes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANCHOLIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RISK; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SPAIN;

EID: 0031706256     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050823     Document Type: Article

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