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GABA(A) receptor beta 3 subunit gene and psychiatric morbidity in a post-traumatic stress disorder population.
Psychiatry research - 1 Nov 2001
Feusner J, Ritchie T, Lawford B, Young R M, Kann B, Noble E P
Abstract excerpt
GABAergic systems have been implicated in the pathogenesis of anxiety, depression and insomnia. These symptoms are part of the core and comorbid psychiatric disturbances in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In a sample of Caucasian male PTSD patients, dinucleotide repeat polymorphisms of the GABA(A) receptor beta 3 subunit gene were compared to scores on the General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ). As the...
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