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Association analysis between gene variants of the tyrosine hydroxylase and the serotonin transporter in borderline personality disorder.
The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry - 1 Feb 2010
Tadić André, Elsässer Amelie, Storm Niels, Baade Ulrike, Wagner Stefanie, Başkaya Omür, Lieb Klaus, Dahmen Norbert
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: For patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD), we previously reported an independent effect of the catechol-o-methyl-transferase (COMT) low-activity (Met(158)) allele and an interaction with the low-expression allele of the deletion/insertion (short/long or S/L, resp.) polymorphism in the serotonin transporter-linked promoter region (5-HTTLPR). The purpose of the present study was to extend...
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