High-Coverage Whole-Exome Sequencing Identifies Candidate Genes for Suicide in Victims with Major Depressive Disorder

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Tombácz, Dóra ^a,b   Maróti, Zoltán ^a   Kalmár, Tibor ^a   Csabai, Zsolt ^a   Balázs, Zsolt ^a   Takahashi, Shinichi ^b   Palkovits, Miklós ^c   Snyder, Michael ^b   Boldogkoi, Zsolt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SUICIDE; WHOLE EXOME SEQUENCING; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA, VIRAL; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, X-LINKED; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SUICIDE; WHOLE EXOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85026847218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06522-3     Document Type: Article

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