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Association between a functional polymorphism in the renin-angiotensin system and completed suicide.
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) - 1 Dec 2006
Hishimoto A, Shirakawa O, Nishiguchi N, Hashimoto T, Yanagi M, Nushida H, Ueno Y, Maeda K
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Suicide has been suggested to involve disturbances in the stress response system and to be related to genetics. The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) has been shown to affect the stress response, and several functional polymorphisms in RAS-related genes have been predicted to alter protein function....
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