Influence of the Serotonin Transporter 5HTTLPR Polymorphism on Symptom Severity in Irritable Bowel Syndrome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Colucci, Rocchina ^a   Gambaccini, Dario ^a   Ghisu, Narcisa ^a   Rossi, Giuseppe ^b   Costa, Francesco ^a   Tuccori, Marco ^a   De Bortoli, Nicola ^a   Fornai, Matteo ^a   Antonioli, Luca ^a   Ricchiuti, Angelo ^a   Mumolo, Maria Gloria ^a   Marchi, Santino ^a   Blandizzi, Corrado ^a   Bellini, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER GENE;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84873488381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054831     Document Type: Article

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