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Genotype and childhood sexual trauma moderate neurocognitive performance: a possible role for brain-derived neurotrophic factor and apolipoprotein E variants.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Sept 2007
Savitz Jonathan, van der Merwe Lize, Stein Dan J, Solms Mark, Ramesar Rajkumar
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BACKGROUND: Limited success in the identification of genetic variants underpinning psychiatric illness has prompted attempts to elucidate gene-environment interactions and illness-associated endophenotypes. Here we measured childhood sexual abuse, a potential environmental risk factor, and verbal and visual recall and recognition memory, a possible illness-associated endophenotype in a cohort of bipolar disorder...
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