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Cultural consonance, a 5HT2A receptor polymorphism, and depressive symptoms: a longitudinal study of gene x culture interaction in urban Brazil.
American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council - 1 Jan 2000
Dressler William W, Balieiro Mauro C, Ribeiro Rosane P, Dos Santos José Ernesto
Abstract excerpt
In this study in urban Brazil we examine, as a predictor of depressive symptoms, the interaction between a single nucleotide polymorphism in the 2A receptor in the serotonin system (-1438G/A) and cultural consonance in family life, a measure of the degree to which an individual perceives her family as corresponding to a widely shared cultural model of the prototypical family. A community sample of 144 adults was...
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