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SUBMITTER: Stjepanovic D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3731781 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Translational psychiatry 20130716
Despite the relevance of changes in amygdala volume to psychiatric illnesses and its heritability in both health and disease, the influence of common genetic variation on amygdala morphology remains largely unexplored. In the present study, we investigated the influence of a number of novel genetic variants on amygdala volume in 139 neurologically healthy individuals of European descent. Amygdala volume was significantly associated with allelic variation in the stathmin (STMN1) and serotonin tra ...[more]