Article
[Genetic association between mood disorder and monoamine oxidase gene].
Zhonghua yi xue za zhi - 1 Dec 1999
Lin S, Jiang S, Jiang K
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To ascertain whether the mood disorder (bipolar and unipolar) is genetically associated with genes polymorphisms of MAOA type and MAOB type in the Chinese. METHODS: One hundred and thirty-two cases of Chinese with mood disorder were genotyped for the MAOA(CA)n, MAOB(GT)n and MAOB(TG)n locus using Amp-FLP. RESULTS: Among 132 cases with mood disorder, 8 alleles (size: 112-126 bp) of MAOA(CA)n, 12 alleles...
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