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Antidepressant-induced mania, rapid cycling and the serotonin transporter gene polymorphism.
The pharmacogenomics journal - 1 Jan 2003
Rousseva A, Henry C, van den Bulke D, Fournier G, Laplanche J-L, Leboyer M, Bellivier F, Aubry J-M, Baud P, Boucherie M, Buresi C, Ferrero F, Malafosse A
Abstract excerpt
The genes involved in the serotonin system are major candidates in association studies on affective disorders and responses to antidepressants. We studied a functional polymorphism of the serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene (a 44 bp insertion/deletion in the 5-HTT-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR)) and lifetime history of antidepressant-induced mania (AIM) in a population of 305 patients with bipolar affective...
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