Biallelic and triallelic approaches of 5-HTTLPR polymorphism are associated with food intake and nutritional status in childhood

The 5-HTT gene contains polymorphisms in its promoter region, the insertion/deletion (5-HTTLPR) that creates long (L) or short (S) alleles (biallelic approach) and SNP (rs25531) in L allele (triallelic approach).

Source: The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry - February 10, 2017 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Raquel C K Miranda, J úlia P Genro, Paula D B Campagnolo, Vanessa S Mattevi, Márcia R Vitolo, Silvana Almeida Source Type: research