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A new lead from genetic studies in depressed siblings: assessing studies of chromosome 3.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Aug 2011
Hamilton Steven P
Abstract excerpt
Studies by Breen et al. and Pergadia et al. find evidence for genetic linkage between major depressive disorder and the same region on chromosome 3. The linked region contains the gene GRM7, which encodes a protein for the metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 (mGluR7). Both studies used affected sibling pairs, and neither was able to replicate its finding using association studies in individuals from larger...
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