No association between polymorphisms in four serotonin receptor genes, serotonin transporter gene and alcohol-related suicide

Psychiatria Danubina

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 522-527

  Zupanc, Tomaž ^a   Pregelj, Peter ^b   Tomori, Martina ^b   Komel, Radovan ^a   Paska, Alja Videtič ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependency; Candidate gene; Genetics; Serotonergic system; Slovenian population; Suicide

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR GENE; SLOVENIA; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1A; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1B; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2A; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SUICIDE;

EID: 78651237685     PISSN: 03535053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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