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Functional DNA methylation in a transcript specific 3'UTR region of TrkB associates with suicide.
Epigenetics - 1 Aug 2014
Maussion Gilles, Yang Jennie, Suderman Matthew, Diallo Alpha, Nagy Corina, Arnovitz Mitchell, Mechawar Naguib, Turecki Gustavo
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies indicate that a subgroup of suicide completers has low cortical brain expression levels of TrkB-T1, a TrkB gene transcript that is highly expressed in astrocytes. Epigenetic modifications, including methylation changes in the TrkB promoter, partially explain TrkB-T1 low expression levels in brain tissue from suicide completers. The aim of this study was to investigate whether methylation changes...
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