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No association between the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene and major depression: a case–control study and meta-analysis

López-León, Sandraa; Janssens, A. Cecile J.W.b; Hofman, Alberta; Claes, Stephanc; Breteler, Monique M.B.a; Tiemeier, Henninga; van Duijn, Cornelia M.a

Departments of aEpidemiology & Biostatistics

bPublic Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

cMolecular Genetics Department, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Correspondence and requests for reprints: Professor Dr C.M. van Duijn, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Postbus 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Tel: +31 10 4087394; fax: +31 10 4089406; e-mail: [email protected]

Sponsorship: S. López León is supported by the Centre for Medical Systems Biology. The Rotterdam Study is supported by the Erasmus University Medical Center and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands Organization for Science Research (NWO), the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), the Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (RIDE), the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, the European Commission (DG XII), the Municipality of Rotterdam, and the Interuniversity Attraction Poles (IUAP) program P5/19 of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office, Belgium.

Received 1 February 2006 Revised 8 March 2006 Accepted 6 April 2006