BDNF Met66 allele is associated with anorexia nervosa in the Polish population [2]

Psychiatric Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 245-246

  Dmitrzak Weglarz, Monika ^a   Skibinska, Maria ^a   Slopien, Agnieszka ^a   Szczepankiewicz, Aleksandra ^a   Rybakowski, Filip ^a   Kramer, Lucyna ^a   Hauser, Joanna ^a   Rajewski, Andrzej ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MELANOCORTIN; METHIONINE; VALINE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY MASS; CHROMOSOME 11P; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; POLAND; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ZONA INCERTA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METHIONINE; POLAND; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VALINE;

EID: 34447315854     PISSN: 09558829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YPG.0b013e3280991229     Document Type: Letter

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