Identification of a naturally occurring Pro385-Ser385 substitution in the GABA(A) receptor α6 subunit gene in alcoholics and healthy volunteers

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 316-319

  Iwata, N ^a,b   Virkkunen, M ^c   Goldman, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Amino acid substitution; GABA receptor; Genetic variation; Polymorphism; Single stranded conformational polymorphism (SSCP)

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL; BENZODIAZEPINE; PROLINE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SERINE;

ALCOHOLISM; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0033920368     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4000706     Document Type: Article

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