Article
Serotonin transporter gene polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and anxiety reactivity in daily life: a daily process approach to gene-environment interaction.
Psychosomatic medicine - 1 Nov 2007
Gunthert Kathleen C, Conner Tamlin S, Armeli Stephen, Tennen Howard, Covault Jonathan, Kranzler Henry R
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To test whether individuals with at least one copy of the short (S) or long (L)(G) allele of the serotonin transporter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) exhibit greater increases in anxiety, compared with L(A)L(A) individuals, under periods of high daily stress. Although this common polymorphism...
Topics
- Activities of Daily Living
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Affect
- Alleles
- Anxiety
- Case-Control Studies
- Environment
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins
- Stress, Psychological
