Meta-Analyses of the 5-HTTLPR Polymorphisms and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Navarro Mateu, Fernando ^a   Escámez, Teresa ^b   Koenen, Karestan C ^c   Alonso, Jordi ^d   Sánchez Meca, Julio ^e  

^a CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^b Fundacion para la Formacion e Investigacion Sanitaria de la Region de Murcia (FFIS)   (Spain)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HTTLPR GENE; ARTICLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROMOTER REGION; RECESSIVE GENE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; META ANALYSIS;

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SLC6A4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84879332061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066227     Document Type: Article

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