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Early family environment, current adversity, the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism, and depressive symptomatology.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Oct 2006
Taylor Shelley E, Way Baldwin M, Welch William T, Hilmert Clayton J, Lehman Barbara J, Eisenberger Naomi I
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mixed evidence has suggested that homozygous carriers of the short allele (s/s) of the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) may be at increased risk for depression, if they have also been exposed to early or current adversity/stress. We address this debate by examining the relation of a stressful early family environment, recent adversity/stress, and the 5-HTTLPR to...
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