Proposed endophenotypes of dysthymia: evolutionary, clinical and pharmacogenomic considerations

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  title={Proposed endophenotypes of dysthymia: evolutionary, clinical and pharmacogenomic considerations},
  author={Alexandru Niculescu and Hagop Souren Akiskal},
  journal={Molecular Psychiatry},
  year={2001},
  volume={6},
  pages={363-366},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1225537}
}
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