Article
Serotonin transporter gene and risk for bipolar affective disorder: an association study in Spanish population.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Jun 1998
Gutiérrez B, Arranz M J, Collier D A, Vallès V, Guillamat R, Bertranpetit J, Murray R M, Fãnás L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The serotonin transporter (5-HTT) is an important candidate gene for the genetic transmission of manic depressive illness. Many studies of patients with affective disorders have found abnormalities in serotonin metabolism and dysregulation of the transporter itself. In the present stu...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Alleles
- Bipolar Disorder
- Carrier Proteins
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
- Ethnicity
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Male
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Membrane Transport Proteins
- Middle Aged
- Minisatellite Repeats
