Suicide and serotonin: Study of variation at seven serotonin receptor genes in suicide completers

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 118 B, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 36-40

  Turecki, G ^a,b,e   Sequeira, A ^a   Gingras, Y ^a   Seguin M ^b   Lesage, A ^b   Tousignant, M ^b   Chawky, N ^b   Vanier, C ^b   Lipp, O ^b   Benkelfat, C ^c   Rouleau, G A ^a,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE FERNAND SEGUIN   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case control design; Polymorphisms; Serotonin receptors; Suicide

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 1B RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 1D RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 1E RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 1F RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 2C RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 5A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 6 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; ISOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE; ALLELE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS;

ALLELES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SUICIDE;

EID: 0038078532     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.10006     Document Type: Article

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