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Variation of the serotonin transporter gene SLC6A4 in the susceptibility to migraine with aura.
Neurology - 14 Nov 2006
Todt U, Freudenberg J, Goebel I, Heinze A, Heinze-Kuhn K, Rietschel M, Göbel H, Kubisch C
Abstract excerpt
To replicate a reported association between migraine with aura (MA) and a promoter polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4), we performed a case-control study in a large German sample comprising 472 patients with MA and 506 controls. Neither this polymorphism nor a systematic analysis with single nucleotide polymorphisms capturing the main haplotype diversity of the SLC6A4 locus provided evidence...
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