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SUBMITTER: Stern AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2586327 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stern Alexa J AJ Savostyanova Antonina A AA Goldman Aaron A Barnett Alan S AS van der Veen Jan Willem C JW Callicott Joseph H JH Mattay Venkata S VS Weinberger Daniel R DR Marenco Stefano S
Biological psychiatry 20080815 10
<h4>Background</h4>This study was conducted to corroborate prior evidence of an effect of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) valine (val) to methionine (met) amino acid substitution at codon 66 (val66met) polymorphism on measures of N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA) containing compounds in healthy subjects.<h4>Methods</h4>The NAA to creatine (Cre) ratio (NAA/Cre), NAA to choline (Cho) ratio (NAA/Cho), and Cho to Cre ratio (Cho/Cre) were measured in the left and right hippocampi, left and right ...[more]