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Polymorphic MAO-A and 5-HT-transporter genes: analysis of interactions in panic disorder.
The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry - 1 Jul 2000
Sand P, Lesch K P, Catalano M, Bosi M, Syagailo Y V, Okladnova O, Di Bella D, Maffei P, Heils A, Friess F, Politi E, Nöthen M M, Franke P, Stöber G, Fritze J, Maier W, Propping P, Beckmann H, Bellodi L, Riederer P, Deckert J
Abstract excerpt
Recurrent panic attacks, anticipatory anxiety and phobic avoidance characterise panic disorder. The influence of genetic factors on liability to the disease has been the object of several linkage and association studies and appears to relate to an oligo- or polygenic rather than a monogenic mode of inheritance. Recently, an excess of high activity monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) gene promoter alleles was found in...
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