-: blank cell; Ca2+: calcium ion; *: pseudogene of its parent gene SLC6A8
Declarations
Author contributions
JG: Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing—review & editing, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition. MC: Conceptualization, Visualization. MC and BQ: Methodology, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data curation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. JZ, SY and AB: Software. SY: Validation. LP and JG: Writing—review & editing. LP: Project administration.
Conflicts of interest
JG is a major shareholder of NetraMark Corp, where NetraMark is a technology company providing clinical trial support to pharmaceutical companies. LP has previously acted as a scientific consultant for AbbVie USA; Acadia USA; BCG Switzerland; Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH; Compass Pathways; EDRA-Publishing, Italy; Ferrer Spain; Gedeon-Richter, Hungary; Inpeco SA, Switzerland; Johnson & Johnson USA; NeuroCog Trials USA; Novartis-Gene Therapies, Switzerland; Otsuka USA; Pfizer Global USA; PharmaMar Spain; Relmada Therapeutics USA; Takeda, USA; VeraSci, USA; Vifor Switzerland.
Part of this research was funded by NetraMark Corp in the form of salary for Dr. Joseph Geraci, and computational resources. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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