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HPA axis reactivity: a mechanism underlying the associations among 5-HTTLPR, stress, and depression.
Biological psychiatry - 1 May 2008
Gotlib Ian H, Joormann Jutta, Minor Kelly L, Hallmayer Joachim
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BACKGROUND: Recent evidence indicates that individuals who are homozygous for the short (s) allele in the promoter region of the serotonin transporter gene have higher rates of depression and other psychiatric disorders as a function of exposure to increasing levels of stressful life events than do individuals who have one or two copies of the long (l) allele. Despite the reliability of this association, the...
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