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Relationships between serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism, platelet serotonin transporter binding and clinical phenotype in suicidal and non-suicidal adolescent inpatients.
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) - 1 Feb 2005
Zalsman G, Anderson G M, Peskin M, Frisch A, King R A, Vekslerchik M, Sommerfeld E, Michaelovsky E, Sher L, Weizman A, Apter A
Abstract excerpt
Relationships between the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR), platelet serotonin transporter (SERT) binding and clinical phenotype were examined in 32 suicidal and 28 non-suicidal Ashkenazi Israeli adolescent psychiatric inpatients. The 5-HTTLPR polymorphism was not associated with transporter binding or with suicidality or other clinical phenotypes. However, in the suicidal group, a...
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