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Association of the serotonin transporter polymorphism and obsessive-compulsive disorder: systematic review.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Sept 2008
Bloch Michael H, Landeros-Weisenberger Angeli, Sen Srijan, Dombrowski Philip, Kelmendi Ben, Coric Vladimir, Pittenger Christopher, Leckman James F
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the association between the long (l) and short (s) alleles of the serotonin transporter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) in the promoter region of the SLC6A4 gene and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) using meta-analysis to combine all published data from case-control and family based association studies (2,283 cases). In stratified meta-analysis we investigated whether age of sample (child and adult),...
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