Three circadian clock genes Per2, Arntl, and Npas2 contribute to winter depression

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-238

  Partonen, Timo ^a   Treutlein, Jens ^b   Alpman, Asude ^c,d   Frank, Josef ^b   Johansson, Carolina ^c   Depner, Martin ^b   Aron, Liviu ^c   Rietschel, Marcella ^b   Wellek, Stefan ^b   Soronen, Pia ^a   Paunio, Tiina ^a   Koch, Andreas ^e   Chen, Ping ^f   Lathrop, Mark ^f   Adolfsson, Rolf ^g   Persson, Maj Liz ^c   Kasper, Siegfried ^h   Schalling, Martin ^c   Peltonen, Leena ^a,i   Schumann, Gunter ^b,j  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^f CENTRE NATIONAL DE GÉNOTYPAGE   (France)

^g UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

ⁱ BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^j KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Circadian; Depressive; In silico; Seasonal affective disorder; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

PER2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARNT1; PROTEIN NPAS2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CHI SQUARE TEST; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 34247634564     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: 16512219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07853890701278795     Document Type: Article

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