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Association studies of bipolar disorder at the human serotonin transporter gene (hSERT; 5HTT).
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Sept 1997
Rees M, Norton N, Jones I, McCandless F, Scourfield J, Holmans P, Moorhead S, Feldman E, Sadler S, Cole T, Redman K, Farmer A, McGuffin P, Owen M J, Craddock N
Abstract excerpt
The human serotonin transporter gene (hSERT) is a strong candidate for involvement in the pathogenesis of mood disorder and, using a UK Caucasian case-control sample, Collier et al found a significant association between bipolar disorder and the 12 allele of the VNTR polymorphism in intron 2 of this gene. In a European collaborative sample, Collier et al found a significant association between affective disorder...
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