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Received: 1 December 2016 Accepted: 26 April 2017 Published: xx xx xxxx
Identification of commonly altered genes between in major depressive disorder and a mouse model of depression Hirotaka Yamagata1, Shusaku Uchida1, Koji Matsuo1, Kenichiro Harada1, Ayumi Kobayashi1, Mami Nakashima1,2, Masayuki Nakano1,3, Koji Otsuki1,4, Naoko Abe-Higuchi1, Fumihiro Higuchi1, Toshio Watanuki1, Toshio Matsubara5, Shigeo Miyata6, Masato Fukuda6, Masahiko Mikuni6,7,8 & Yoshifumi Watanabe1 The heterogeneity of depression (due to factors such as varying age of onset) may explain why biological markers of major depressive disorder (MDD) remain uncertain. We aimed to identify gene expression markers of MDD in leukocytes using microarray analysis. We analyzed gene expression profiles of patients with MDD (age ≥50, age of depression onset
OPEN
Received: 1 December 2016 Accepted: 26 April 2017 Published: xx xx xxxx
Identification of commonly altered genes between in major depressive disorder and a mouse model of depression Hirotaka Yamagata1, Shusaku Uchida1, Koji Matsuo1, Kenichiro Harada1, Ayumi Kobayashi1, Mami Nakashima1,2, Masayuki Nakano1,3, Koji Otsuki1,4, Naoko Abe-Higuchi1, Fumihiro Higuchi1, Toshio Watanuki1, Toshio Matsubara5, Shigeo Miyata6, Masato Fukuda6, Masahiko Mikuni6,7,8 & Yoshifumi Watanabe1 The heterogeneity of depression (due to factors such as varying age of onset) may explain why biological markers of major depressive disorder (MDD) remain uncertain. We aimed to identify gene expression markers of MDD in leukocytes using microarray analysis. We analyzed gene expression profiles of patients with MDD (age ≥50, age of depression onset
