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The usual suspects: tyrosine hydroxylase and the serotonin transporter in affective disorders

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Candidate gene studies of single polymorphisms in affective disorders and psychosis have produced many intriguing results, but will they ever be definitive? We predict that in the future there will be a convergence of linkage and association analysis to genome-wide linkage disequilibrium studies using overlapping haplotypes.

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Collier, D., Sham, P. The usual suspects: tyrosine hydroxylase and the serotonin transporter in affective disorders. Mol Psychiatry 3, 103–105 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4000384

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