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Mutation screen and association analysis of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) in childhood-onset mood disorders (COMD).
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Sept 2009
Mill J, Wigg K, Burcescu I, Vetró A, Kiss E, Kapornai K, Tamás Z, Baji I, Gádoros J, Kennedy J L, Kovacs M, Barr C L
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Depressive disorders are highly heterogeneous psychiatric disorders involving deficits to cognitive, psychomotor, and emotional processing. Considerable evidence links disruption to the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis to the etiology of depression, with specific deficits reported in glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-mediated negative feedback. Given the role of GR-mediated negative feedback in mediating...
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