No association between anxiety disorders and catechol-O- methyltransferase polymorphism

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 145-148

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

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Department of Psychiatry   (Japan)

Author keywords

COMT; Genetics; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLELE; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; COMPULSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; OBSESSION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALLELES; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0032541285     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(98)00062-6     Document Type: Article

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