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Response to citalopram is not associated with SLC6A4 genotype in African-Americans and Caucasians with major depression.
Life sciences - 30 May 2013
Poland Russell E, Lesser Ira M, Wan Yu-Jui Yvonne, Gertsik Lev, Yao Jie, Raffel Leslie J, Lin Keh-Ming, Myers Hector F
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AIMS: Ethnic differences in genotype frequency provide a natural condition for assessing the contribution of gene variations to the causes and treatments of disease. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to determine whether ethnic variations in allele frequencies of the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) of the SLC6A4 gene were related to the response to the treatment of...
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