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A missense variant (P10L) of the melanopsin (OPN4) gene in seasonal affective disorder.
Journal of affective disorders - 1 Apr 2009
Roecklein Kathryn A, Rohan Kelly J, Duncan Wallace C, Rollag Mark D, Rosenthal Norman E, Lipsky Robert H, Provencio Ignacio
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BACKGROUND: Melanopsin, a non-visual photopigment, may play a role in aberrant responses to low winter light levels in Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). We hypothesize that functional sequence variation in the melanopsin gene could contribute to increasing the light needed for normal functioning...
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