Serotonin transporter gene promoter variants do not explain the hyperserotoninemia in autistic children

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 795-800

  Persico, A M ^a   Pascucci, T ^b,c   Puglisi Allegra, S ^b,c   Militerni, R ^d   Bravaccio, C ^d   Schneider, C ^e   Melmed, R ^e   Trillo, S ^f   Montecchi, F ^f   Palermo, M ^a   Rabinowitz, D ^g   Reichelt, K L ^h   Conciatori, M ^a   Marino, R ^a   Keller, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center   (United States)

^f BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Allelic association; Autism; Haplotype relative risk; Linkage disequilibrium; Peptiduria; Pervasive developmental disorders; Platelets; Serotoninemia; Transmission disequilibrium test

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ALLELE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036373349     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4001069     Document Type: Article

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