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Human amygdala volume is predicted by common DNA variation in the stathmin and serotonin transporter genes.
Translational psychiatry - 16 Jul 2013
Stjepanović D, Lorenzetti V, Yücel M, Hawi Z, Bellgrove M A
Abstract excerpt
Despite the relevance of changes in amygdala volume to psychiatric illnesses and its heritability in both health and disease, the influence of common genetic variation on amygdala morphology remains largely unexplored. In the present study, we investigated the influence of a number of novel genetic variants on amygdala volume in 139 neurologically healthy individuals of European descent. Amygdala volume was...
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