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Large normal-range TBP and ATXN7 CAG repeat lengths are associated with increased lifetime risk of depression.
Translational psychiatry - 6 Jun 2017
Gardiner S L, van Belzen M J, Boogaard M W, van Roon-Mom W M C, Rozing M P, van Hemert A M, Smit J H, Beekman A T F, van Grootheest G, Schoevers R A, Oude Voshaar R C, Comijs H C, Penninx B W J H, van der Mast R C, Roos R A C, Aziz N A
Abstract excerpt
Depression is one of the most prevalent and debilitating psychiatric disorders worldwide. Recently, we showed that both relatively short and relatively long cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) repeats in the huntingtin gene (HTT) are associated with an increased risk of lifetime depression. However, to what extent the variations in CAG repeat length in the other eight polyglutamine disease-associated genes (PDAGs) are...
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