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Association between COMT methylation and response to treatment in children with ADHD.
Journal of psychiatric research - 1 Mar 2021
Fageera Weam, Chaumette Boris, Fortier Marie-Ève, Grizenko Natalie, Labbe Aurelie, Sengupta Sarojini M, Joober Ridha
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: COMT had been considered a promising candidate gene in pharmacogenetic studies in ADHD; yet the findings from these studies have been inconsistent. Part of these inconsistencies could be related to epigenetic mechanisms (including DNA methylation). Here we investigated the role of genetic variants of the COMT gene on the methylation levels of CpG sites in the same gene and explored the effect of...
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