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Genetics of stress response and stress-related disorders
31 Dec 2006
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The major findings regarding the genetics of stress response and stress-related disorders are: (i) variations in genes involved in the sympathetic system or in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis are associated with altered stress responses; (ii) genes related to the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system or inflammation/immune response show associations with cardiovascular disorders; (iii) genes...
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