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Association study of the adrenergic receptors and childhood-onset mood disorders in Hungarian families.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Apr 2006
Burcescu I, Wigg K, Gomez L, King N, Vetró A, Kiss E, Kapornai K, Gádoros J, Kennedy J L, Kovacs M, Barr C L
Abstract excerpt
The adrenergic system has been implicated in the etiology of depression based on a number of lines of evidence, particularly, the mechanism of some classes of antidepressants which increase the synaptic levels of norepinephrine. Further, several genome scans for mood disorders, both unipolar and bipolar, have indicated linkage to the chromosomal regions of 5q23-q33.3, 8p12-p11.2, 4p16, and 10q24-q26, the location...
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