Genetic polymorphisms of human melatonin 1b receptor gene in circadian rhythm sleep disorders and controls

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-32

  Ebisawa, Takashi ^a   Uchiyama, Makoto ^b   Kajimura, Naofumi ^c   Kamei, Yuichi ^d   Shibui, Kayo ^b   Kim, Keiko ^e   Kudo, Yoshinao ^d   Iwase, Toshio ^a   Sugishita, Mariko ^a   Jodoi, Takako ^f   Ikeda, Masaaki ^a   Ozeki, Yuji ^g   Watanabe, Tsuyoshi ^c   Sekimoto, Masanori ^c   Katoh, Masaaki ^c   Yamada, Naoto ^g   Toyoshima, Ryoichi ^a   Okawa, Masako ^b   Takahashi, Kiyohisa ^c   Yamauchi, Toshio ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d 1 7 1 Kohnodai   (Japan)

^e TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene; Human; Melatonin receptor; Polymorphism; Single strand conformational polymorphism analysis; Sleep disorders

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN 1A RECEPTOR; MELATONIN 1B RECEPTOR; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SLEEP DISORDER;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, MELATONIN; REFERENCE VALUES; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0033956716     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00981-7     Document Type: Article

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