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Serotonin transporter polymorphism and harm avoidance personality in chronic tension-type headache.
Headache - 1 Jan 2000
Park Jeong Wook, Kim Joong Seok, Lee Hae Kook, Kim Yeong In, Lee Kwang Soo
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the 5-HTT-gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) genotypes and harm avoidance (HA) dimension in chronic tension-type headache (CTH). BACKGROUND: Serotonin transporter protein (5-HTT) is a key modulating protein in synaptic serotonergic neurotransmission. Among serotonin gene-linked polymorphism, promoter located in the regulatory region of the 5-HTTLPR has two alleles (short and long)...
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