Article
Association between anxiety disorders and a functional polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene.
Psychiatry research - 16 Nov 1998
Ohara K, Nagai M, Suzuki Y, Ochiai M, Ohara K
Abstract excerpt
Recently, individuals with the short form of the serotonin transporter were found to be associated with neurotic characteristics. An association study on this polymorphism was performed in anxiety disorder patients and control subjects. The short form allele frequency in patients tended to be hig...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Anxiety Disorders
- Carrier Proteins
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Male
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Membrane Transport Proteins
- Middle Aged
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins