Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 155, Issue 2 , Pages 173-177 , 15 July 2007

The COMT Val158Met polymorphism and temporal lobe morphometry in healthy adults

  • Warren D. Taylor

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Duke University Medical Center, DUMC 3903, Durham, NC 27710, USA. Tel.: +1 919 668 7887; fax: +1 919 681 7668.
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  • Stephan Züchner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
    • Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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  • Martha E. Payne

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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  • Denise F. Messer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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  • Tracy J. Doty

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
    • TJD is now at the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, NIMH, Bethesda, MD, USA and the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
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  • James R. MacFall

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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  • John L. Beyer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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  • K. Ranga R. Krishnan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Received 16 October 2006 ,Revised 5 January 2007 ,Accepted 20 January 2007.

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PII: S0925-4927(07)00021-2

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.01.005

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 155, Issue 2 , Pages 173-177 , 15 July 2007

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