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Heritability of cortisol levels: review and simultaneous analysis of twin studies.
Psychoneuroendocrinology - 1 Feb 2003
Bartels M, Van den Berg M, Sluyter F, Boomsma D I, de Geus E J C
Abstract excerpt
Cortisol has a pivotal role in physical and mental health, but relatively few studies have paid attention to individual differences in cortisol levels and the etiology of these differences, in particular their possible genetic basis. In this article we review the existing literature on the heritability of cortisol levels. Most of the studies, which have been carried out in genetically informative samples, lack...
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