Association between anxiety disorders and a functional polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 277-279

  Ohara, Koichi ^a   Nagai, Miho ^a   Suzuki, Yasuo ^a   Ochiai, Masato ^a   Ohara, Kenshiro ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorder; Functional polymorphism; Gene; PCR; Promoter; Serotonin transporter

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSION; PANIC; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALLELES; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CARRIER PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032538923     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(98)00100-0     Document Type: Article

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