ESTROGEN AND THE MENTAL STATE: MOLECULAR VARIATIONS WITHIN THE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR GENE MODULATE CLINICAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DEPRESSION - Patent 0983382

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EP 0 983 382 A1

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(43)	Date of publication:
	08.03.2000 Bulletin 2000/10

(21)	Application number: 98913083.6

(22)	Date of filing: 23.03.1998

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: C12Q 1/68, C07H 21/04, G01N 33/53, A61K 48/00, A61K 31/56, C07K 16/28

(86)	International application number:
	PCT/US9805/789

(87)	International publication number:
	WO 9842/872 (01.10.1998 Gazette 1998/39)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

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Priority:

24.03.1997 US 41449 P

(71)	Applicant: Spectra Biomedical
	Burlingame, CA 94010 (US)

(72)	Inventor:
	PEROUTKA, Stephen, J. Hillsborough, CA 94010 (US)

(74)	Representative: Cornish, Kristina Victoria Joy et al
	Kilburn & Strode,20 Red Lion Street London WC1R 4PJ London WC1R 4PJ (GB)

(54)	ESTROGEN AND THE MENTAL STATE: MOLECULAR VARIATIONS WITHIN THE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR GENE MODULATE CLINICAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DEPRESSION