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No evidence of an association between a functional monoamine oxidase a gene polymorphism and completed suicides.
American journal of medical genetics - 8 Apr 2002
Ono Hisae, Shirakawa Osamu, Nishiguchi Naoki, Nishimura Akiyoshi, Nushida Hideyuki, Ueno Yasuhiro, Maeda Kiyoshi
Abstract excerpt
Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) has been implicated in the control of aggression and/or impulsivity in humans and been involved in suicide. This gene has a functional polymorphism in which there is a variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) in the upstream region (MAOA-uVNTR). We hypothesized that MAOA dysfunction due to this polymorphism was associated with suicide genetically through the disinhibition of aggression...
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