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Serotonin transporter gene polymorphism influences age at onset in patients with bipolar affective disorder.
Neuroscience letters - 6 Dec 2002
Bellivier Frank, Leroux Maÿliss, Henry Chantal, Rayah Fadila, Rouillon Frédéric, Laplanche Jean-Louis, Leboyer Marion
Abstract excerpt
Serotonin transporter (SLC6A4) gene polymorphism is associated with several behavioral and psychiatric traits. In bipolar affective disorder, two polymorphisms of the SLC6A4 gene, a variable number of tandem repeats in the second intron and a 44 bp insertion/deletion in the serotonin transporter gene linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR), have been extensively studied. The findings are conflicting possibly because...
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