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Bcl-2 polymorphism influences gray matter volume in the ventral striatum in healthy humans.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Oct 2009
Salvadore Giacomo, Nugent Allison C, Chen Guang, Akula Nirmala, Yuan Peixiong, Cannon Dara M, Zarate Carlos A, McMahon Francis J, Manji Husseini K, Drevets Wayne C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Bcl-2 is a major regulator of neural plasticity and cellular resilience. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the Bcl-2 gene, Bcl-2 rs956572, significantly modulates the expression of Bcl-2 protein and cellular vulnerability to apoptosis. We tested the hypothesis that this SNP would modulate gray matter (GM) volume in the limbic-cortical-striatal-pallidal-thalamic circuitry that plays major roles...
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