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Common genetic vulnerability to depressive symptoms and coronary artery disease: a review and development of candidate genes related to inflammation and serotonin.
Psychosomatic medicine - 1 Jan 2000
McCaffery Jeanne M, Frasure-Smith Nancy, Dubé Marie-Pierre, Théroux Pierre, Rouleau Guy A, Duan Qingling, Lespérance Francois
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OBJECTIVE: Although it is well established that depressive symptoms are associated with recurrent cardiac events among cardiac patients and novel cardiac events among participants with no known coronary artery disease (CAD), the nature of this association remains unclear. In this regard, little attention has been paid to the possibility that common genetic vulnerability contributes to both depressive symptoms and...
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