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From nature versus nurture, via nature and nurture, to gene x environment interaction in mental disorders.
European child & adolescent psychiatry - 1 Mar 2010
Wermter Anne-Kathrin, Laucht Manfred, Schimmelmann Benno G, Banaschewski Tobias, Banaschweski Tobias, Sonuga-Barke Edmund J S, Rietschel Marcella, Becker Katja
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It is now generally accepted that complex mental disorders are the results of interplay between genetic and environmental factors. This holds out the prospect that by studying G x E interplay we can explain individual variation in vulnerability and resilience to environmental hazards in the development of mental disorders. Furthermore studying G x E findings may give insights in neurobiological mechanisms of...
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