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When the SLC6A15 gene is targeted with an appropriate DNA molecule SSHD-A15 to enhance its function, it may help reduce the symptoms of depression.
What does SLC6A15 do?
For many years, scientists have searched for genes that are involved in depression. Recently, scientists from Germany's Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry made the exciting discovery that the gene SLC6A15 was linked to depression.
They found that expression of the SLC6A15 gene, which regulates the brain's excitatory transmitter glutamate, was reduced in depressed people [1].