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Major psychiatric disorders and the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4): family-based association studies.
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Sept 2002
Dimitrova Albena, Georgieva Lyudmila, Nikolov Ivan, Poriazova Nadejda, Krastev Stefan, Toncheva Draga, Owen Michael J, Kirov George
Abstract excerpt
The serotonin transporter (5-HTT) is a suitable candidate gene to test for involvement in the pathogenesis of major psychiatric disorders. We used the method of family-based controls to test for association between disease and a variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) in intron 2 of the gene, which has received support for involvement in the pathogenesis of several psychiatric disorders. We analysed 413...
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