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Variability in the 5-HT(2A) receptor gene is associated with seasonal pattern in major depression.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Mar 2001
Arias B, Gutiérrez B, Pintor L, Gastó C, Fañanás L
Abstract excerpt
The 102-T/C polymorphism of the 5-HT(2A) receptor gene was analysed in 159 patients with major depression and 164 unrelated and healthy controls using a case-control design. Allele and genotype frequencies did not differ between cases and controls. No differences according to sex, age of onset, melancholia, suicidal behaviour or family history of psychiatric illness were found. However, genotype distributions...
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