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Variation in catechol-O-methyltransferase is associated with duloxetine response in a clinical trial for major depressive disorder.
Biological psychiatry - 1 May 2009
Perlis Roy H, Fijal Bonnie, Adams David H, Sutton Virginia K, Trivedi Madhukar H, Houston John P
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BACKGROUND: The study objective was to evaluate variations in genes implicated in antidepressant mechanism of action for association with response to duloxetine treatment in major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS: We assessed response over 6 weeks in 250 duloxetine-treated Caucasian patients in a randomized, double-blind study of patients with MDD. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped in 19...
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