Suicide
Research from RIKEN has provided new information about suicide
Published in Lab Business Week, March 23rd, 2008
A new study, 'Gene expression profiling of major depression and suicide in the prefrontal cortex of postmortem brains,' is now available. "Genome-wide gene expression analysis using DNA microarray has a great advantage to identify the genes or specific molecular cascades involved in mental diseases, including major depression and suicide. In the present study, we conducted DNA microarray analysis of major depression using postmortem prefrontal cortices," scientists in Wako, Japan report.
"The gene expression patterns were compared between the controls and subjects with major depression. As a result, 99 genes were listed as the differentially expressed genes in major...
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Source: Lab Business Week (2008-03-23)
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