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A DRD4/BDNF gene-gene interaction associated with maximum BMI in women with bulimia nervosa.
The International journal of eating disorders - 1 Jan 2008
Kaplan Allan S, Levitan Robert D, Yilmaz Zeynep, Davis Caroline, Tharmalingam Subi, Kennedy James L
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The goals of the current study were threefold: 1) to examine whether the hypofunctional 7R allele of the DRD4 gene contributes to maximal lifetime body mass in women with BN; 2) to determine whether the BDNF gene contributes to maximal BMI on its own, and 3) to explore possible BDNF/DRD4 gene-gene interactions in mediating maximum lifetime BMIs in BN. METHOD: We tested two General Linear Models...
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