Functional polymorphism in the serotonin transporter promoter at the SLC6A4 locus and mood disorders

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 550-554

  Ohara, Koichi ^a   Nagai, Miho ^a   Tsukamoto, Toshio ^a   Tani, Kunihiko ^a   Suzuki, Yasuo ^a   Ohara, Kenshiro ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depression; Gene; Mood disorders; Polymorphism; Promoter; Serotonin transporter

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NEUROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ADULT; ALLELES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOOD DISORDERS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032191026     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(98)00112-7     Document Type: Article

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