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Genetics of the serotonergic system in suicidal behavior.
Journal of psychiatric research - 1 Jan 2000
Arango Victoria, Huang Yung-yu, Underwood Mark D, Mann J John
Abstract excerpt
Genetic factors contribute to the risk of psychopathology in many psychiatric conditions, but the specific genes are yet to be identified. Neurotransmitter alterations are implicated in the etiology of psychopathology based, in part, on studies of neurotransmitter receptors and their biosynthetic or degradative enzymes in postmortem tissue. Identification of the altered receptors and enzymes serves to identify...
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