Susceptibility for schizophrenia is not influenced by a functional insertion/deletion variant in the promoter of the serotonin transporter gene

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 248, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 82-86

  Stöber, Gerald ^a   Jatzke, Susanne ^a   Heils, Armin ^a   Jungkunz, Gerd ^b   Fuchs, Elisabeth ^a   Knapp, Michael ^c   Riederer, Peter ^a   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Psychiatric State Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 HTT; Allelic variation; Gene; Promoter; Repeat element polymorphism; Schizophrenia; Serotonin transporter

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTRON; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RISK; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TANDEM REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031841252     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004060050022     Document Type: Article

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