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Analysis of promoter polymorphism in monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene in completed suicide on Slovenian population.
Neuroscience letters - 23 Apr 2018
Uršič Katarina, Zupanc Tomaž, Paska Alja Videtič
Abstract excerpt
Suicide is a well-defined public health problem and is a complex phenomenon influenced by a number of different risk factors, including genetic ones. Numerous studies have examined serotonin system genes. Monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) is an outer mitochondrial membrane enzyme which is involved in the metabolic pathway of serotonin degradation. Upstream variable number of tandem repeats (uVNTR) in the promoter...
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