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Lithium-responsive affective disorders: no association with the tyrosine hydroxylase gene.
Psychiatry research - 27 Sept 1996
Cavazzoni P, Alda M, Turecki G, Rouleau G, Grof E, Martin R, Duffy A, Grof P
Abstract excerpt
Family, adoption, and twin studies have demonstrated the involvement of genetic factors in the etiology of major affective disorders. In an attempt to identify the involved genes, several linkage and association studies have focused on the gene coding for tyrosine hydroxylase, the rate-limiting enzyme in catecholamine synthesis. The discrepant results to date could be explained by etiological heterogeneity, which...
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