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Associations of a regulatory polymorphism of monoamine oxidase-A gene promoter (MAOA-uVNTR) with symptoms of depression and sleep quality.
Psychosomatic medicine - 1 Jun 2007
Brummett Beverly H, Krystal Andrew D, Siegler Ilene C, Kuhn Cynthia, Surwit Richard S, Züchner Stephan, Ashley-Koch Allison, Barefoot John C, Williams Redford B
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OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationships among the variable number of tandem repeats in the monoamine oxidase-A linked polymorphic region allelic variation (MAOA-uVNTR) and the symptoms of depression and sleep quality. The monoamine oxidase-A (MAOA) gene, which plays a vital role in degradation of neurotransmitters such as serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine, contains a polymorphism in its promoter region...
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