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Serotonergic candidate genes and puerperal psychosis: an association study.
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Oct 2007
Kumar H B Kiran, Purushottam Meera, Kubendran Shobana, Gayathri Praveena, Mukherjee Odity, Murthy A Ram, Ghosh Saurabh, Chandra Prabha, Reddy Y C Janardhan, Benegal Vivek, Brahmachari Samir Kumar, Jain Sanjeev
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BACKGROUND: Altered serotonergic function is implicated in the aetiology and pathogenesis of a host of psychiatric disorders, and structural variations/polymorphisms in genes encoding the serotonin transporter and various serotonin receptor subtypes are attractive candidates to investigate the biological component underlying these disorders. Specific phenotypic subtypes, that perhaps represent homogeneous forms...
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