Serotonin transporters: Evolution and impact of polymorphic transcriptional regulation

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 136 B, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-57

  Søeby, Karen ^a   Larsen, Svend A ^a   Olsen, Line ^a   Rasmussen, Henrik B ^a   Werge, Thomas ^a  

^a Sct Hans Hospital   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Affective disorders; Behavior; Binding motif; Evolution; Intron; Mammals; Non human primates; Slc6a4; Transcription factor; Variable number of tandem repeats; VNTR

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; SLC6A4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; INTRON; MONKEY; MOOD DISORDER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 21444448420     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30184     Document Type: Article

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