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Gene variant plays role in response to antidepressant
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30012
Subject(s) - antidepressant , gene , pharmacology , genetics , computational biology , medicine , biology , neuroscience , hippocampus
A new depression study examining a population of Mexican‐Americans found a favorable response from fluoxetine and also identified a single‐nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associated with remission. The findings advance currently limited knowledge of factors affecting antidepressant efficacy in Hispanic populations.