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Depression in suicidal males: genetic risk variants in the CRHR1 gene.
Genes, brain, and behavior - 1 Feb 2009
Wasserman D, Wasserman J, Rozanov V, Sokolowski M
Abstract excerpt
Dysregulation in the stress response of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, involving the corticotrophin-releasing hormone and its main receptor (CRHR1), is considered to play a major role in depression and suicidal behavior. To comprehensively map the genetic variation in CRHR1 in relation to suicidality and depression, as a follow-up to our initial report on SNP rs4792887, we analyzed six new single...
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