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Variants in estrogen receptor alpha gene are associated with phenotypical expression of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Psychoneuroendocrinology - 1 May 2011
Alonso P, Gratacòs M, Segalàs C, Escaramís G, Real E, Bayés M, Labad J, Pertusa A, Vallejo J, Estivill X, Menchón J M
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Compelling data from animal and clinical studies suggest that sex steroids may play a role in the etiopathology of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The aim of this study was to investigate whether variants in estrogen receptor genes ESR1 and ESR2 may contribute to the genetic susceptibility to OCD, through a case-control association study using an extensive linkage disequilibrium-mapping approach. Twenty tag...
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