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Article: Study looks at cause of side effects
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- The Herald News - Joliet (IL)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2003
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Researchers have found a genetic difference that may explain why some people experience side effects to common antidepressants.
"Antidepressants are among the most widely prescribed medications in the world, but one of the mysteries has been why some people get debilitating side effects and others don't," said Dr. Greer Murphy, an associate professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. He is the lead author of a report published Tuesday in the October issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Murphy and a colleague, Dr. Alan Schatzberg, sought to find differences in the function of proteins -- and the genes that encode proteins -- that could account for different responses. They looked ...