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Serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms: ethnic difference and possible association with bipolar affective disorder.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Jan 2000
Kunugi H, Hattori M, Kato T, Tatsumi M, Sakai T, Sasaki T, Hirose T, Nanko S
Abstract excerpt
There is some evidence suggesting that a polymorphism of variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) in the second intron of the serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene and another variation which lies 1.2 kb upstream of the promoter of the gene (5-HTTLPR) are associated with affective disorders. However...
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