Smaller hippocampus volume is associated with short variant of 5-HTTLPR polymorphism in medication-free major depressive disorder patients

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 22-28

  Eker, M Cagdas ^a   Kitis, Omer ^b   Okur, Hamza ^c   Eker, Ozlem Donat ^d   Ozan, Erol ^e   Isikli, Serhan ^a   Akarsu, Nurten ^c   Gonul, Ali Saffet ^a,f  

^a School of Medicine   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^e ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

5 HTTLPR polymorphism; Depressive disorder; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ALLELES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 77957996968     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321834     Document Type: Article

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