Article
Epistatic interaction of genetic depression risk variants in the human subgenual cingulate cortex during memory encoding.
Translational psychiatry - 18 Mar 2014
Schott B H, Assmann A, Schmierer P, Soch J, Erk S, Garbusow M, Mohnke S, Pöhland L, Romanczuk-Seiferth N, Barman A, Wüstenberg T, Haddad L, Grimm O, Witt S, Richter S, Klein M, Schütze H, Mühleisen T W, Cichon S, Rietschel M, Noethen M M, Tost H, Gundelfinger E D, Düzel E, Heinz A, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Seidenbecher C I, Walter H
Abstract excerpt
Recent genome-wide association studies have pointed to single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes encoding the neuronal calcium channel CaV1.2 (CACNA1C; rs1006737) and the presynaptic active zone protein Piccolo (PCLO; rs2522833) as risk factors for affective disorders, particularly major depression. Previous neuroimaging studies of depression-related endophenotypes have highlighted the role of the subgenual...
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