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Rgs 2 gene polymorphisms as modulators of anxiety in humans?
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) - 1 Dec 2006
Leygraf A, Hohoff C, Freitag C, Willis-Owen S A G, Krakowitzky P, Fritze J, Franke P, Bandelow B, Fimmers R, Flint J, Deckert J
Abstract excerpt
Rgs2 (regulator of G-protein signalling 2) gene recently was reported as a quantitative trait gene for anxious behaviour in mice and male Rgs2 knockout mice have been shown to be more anxious than wildtype mice. Therefore we investigated four non-coding single nucleotide polymorphisms in a sample of 173 patients with panic disorder and 173 matched controls of German descent. At the genotype level all four SNPs...
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