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Association between serotonin transporter (SERT) gene polymorphism and idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension: a meta-analysis and review of the literature.
Metabolism: clinical and experimental - 1 Dec 2013
Zhang Hang, Xu Meng, Xia Jia, Qin Ren-Yi
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OBJECTIVE: Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) is a rare and often fatal disease of unknown etiology. Serotonin transporter (SERT) protein, whose genes can have two allelic forms, namely long (L) and short (S), is suspected to be related to IPAH risk. Several studies have investigat...
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