SLC6A4, solute carrier family 6 member 4, 6532

N. diseases: 440; N. variants: 28
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE The results provide preliminary evidence that alterations in the primary structure of 5-HTT are not generally involved in the pathogenesis of unipolar depression and manic-depressive illness. 7711157 1995
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Association studies of bipolar disorder at the human serotonin transporter gene (hSERT; 5HTT). 9322234 1997
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We selected 42 patients with bipolar disorder type I (BPI) and 40 healthy controls for genetic analysis of DNA polymorphisms in the serotonin receptor 2c (5-HTR2c) and serotonin transporter (5-HTT) genes. 9342201 1997
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE By affected-sib-pair analysis and the transmission/disequilibrium test, we found no significant linkage or association of 5-HTT to bipolar disorder. 9514585 1998
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The present study analysed this variation and another variation in the SERT gene and nearby DNA markers in order to test for linkage between SERT and bipolar affective disorder in two Danish families. 9543202 1998
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We have analyzed 86 unrelated patients (47 with bipolar disorder and 39 with schizophrenia) and 98 normal controls from the Brazilian population for the 5-HTTLPR. 9603609 1998
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our results suggest that the genetic variability of the 5-HTT gene is not a major risk factor for manic depression. 9611675 1998
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Allelic association case-control analysis of a deletion/insertion polymorphism in the serotonin transporter-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) has suggested associations with unipolar disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, and Alzheimer's disease. 9848084 1998
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A functional polymorphism in the upstream regulatory region of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) has been recently reported to be associated with both unipolar and bipolar disorder. 10395220 1999
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our results do not support the hypothesis of a role for DRD2, DRD4, DAT, or SERT in bipolar disorder. 10490710 1999
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE To further investigate whether reduced 5-HTT function could be an endophenotype in manic depressive illness, we looked for abnormalities of platelet 5-HTT among subjects who are potential carriers of genetic vulnerability to manic depressive illness (MDI). 10624553 1999
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Although it will be important to extend the present study in a larger sample, our initial results do not suggest any large association with alleles of the VNTR in the SERT gene and bipolar disorder in Indian patients.Am.J. Med.Genet.(Neuropsychiatr.Genet.)96:170-172, 2000. 10893491 2000
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Lack of linkage disequilibrium between serotonin transporter protein gene (SLC6A4) and bipolar disorder. 10898918 2000
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE An association study of bipolar mood disorder (type I) with the 5-HTTLPR serotonin transporter polymorphism in a human population isolate from Colombia. 11018311 2000
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Nevertheless, the findings might suggest that alterations in the structure of 5-HTT are involved in the pathogenesis of bipolar disorder, which could have major implications in treatment. 11093065 2000
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the SLC6A4 variants in the pathogenesis of antidepressant-induced mania in BP. 11386982 2001
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease CTD_human Relative to the comparison subjects, subjects with bipolar disorder without panic disorder, but not those with comorbid bipolar disorder and panic disorder, showed significantly higher frequencies of the COMT Met158 and the short 5-HTTLPR alleles and genotypes. 11772685 2002
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE The findings support the hypothesis that comorbid panic disorder identifies a genetic subtype of bipolar disorder and suggest a role for COMT and 5-HTT in vulnerability to these disorders. 11772685 2002
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Differential sampling procedures may influence the proportion of AAO subgroups in a given association study, and therefore these results may explain the conflicting results obtained in studies of the association between the SLC6A4 gene polymorphism and bipolar affective disorder (BPAD). 12431765 2002
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We studied a functional polymorphism of the serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene (a 44 bp insertion/deletion in the 5-HTT-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR)) and lifetime history of antidepressant-induced mania (AIM) in a population of 305 patients with bipolar affective disorder. 12746735 2003
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The overall odds ratio (OR) for the combined individual results was significant for BD and the two 5-HTT polymorphisms: Mantel-Haenszel weighted OR=1.14, CI: 1.03-1.26, P=0.015 for the promoter locus (N=3467) and Mantel-Haenszel Weighted odds ratio OR=1.18, CI: 1.05-1.32, P=0.004 for the VNTR locus (N=3620). 12851635 2003
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Further evidence for a possible association between serotonin transporter gene and lithium prophylaxis in mood disorders. 15111989 2004
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Current studies have found associations of SLC6A4 polymorphisms with several psychiatric traits including bipolar affective disorder (BPD) in various populations; however, studies with contradictory results were also reported. 15167705 2004
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The 5-HTTLPR polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) may contribute to the risk of bipolar disorder, suicidal behavior, and neuroticism, but association to the lifetime risk of major depression has not been shown. 15802092 2005
CUI: C0005586
Disease: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE The serotonin transporter (5-HTT) is a candidate gene for bipolar disorder (BPD). 15824745 2005