The serotonin transporter intronic VNTR enhancer correlated with a predisposition to affective disorders has distinct regulatory elements within the domain based on the primary DNA sequence of the repeat unit

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 417-420

  Lovejoy, E A ^a   Scott, A C ^b   Fiskerstrand, C E ^a   Bubb, V J ^b   Quinn, J P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enhancer; Human; Polymorphism; Serotonin transporter; Transcriptional regulation; VNTR

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MOOD DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHORIOCARCINOMA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOOD DISORDERS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0037270399     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02446.x     Document Type: Article

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