| Literature DB >> 25623016 |
Philippe A Melas1, Yvonne Forsell2.
Abstract
We recently showed that depression in females is associated with hypomethylation in the first exon region of the monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene. Here we report on a small-scale (n=44) replication study of MAOA methylation which (a) confirms that female subjects with a history of depression are hypomethylated compared to controls and (b) shows that females are hypermethylated in the same region compared to males.Entities:
Keywords: DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Monoamine oxidase A
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25623016 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.01.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychiatry Res ISSN: 0165-1781 Impact factor: 3.222