Serotonin transporter gene promoter (5-HTTLPR) and intron 2 (VNTR) polymorphisms: A study on Slovenian population of suicide victims

Psychiatric Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 187-191

  Pungercic, Galina ^a   Videtic, Alja ^a   Pestotnik, Anita ^a   Pajnic, Irena Zupanic ^a   Zupanc, Tomaz ^a   Balazic, Joze ^a   Tomori, Martina ^b   Komel, Radovan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Genetics; Polymorphism; Serotonin transporter gene; Slovenian population; Suicide

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SLOVENIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SLOVENIA; SUICIDE;

EID: 33748755175     PISSN: 09558829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ypg.0000218617.65633.9e     Document Type: Article

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