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5-HTTLPR moderates effects of current life events on neuroticism: differential susceptibility to environmental influences.
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry - 16 Aug 2010
Pluess Michael, Belsky Jay, Way Baldwin M, Taylor Shelley E
Abstract excerpt
Research chronicling links between a polymorphism in the serotonin-transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) and neuroticism has yielded inconsistent results. One possible explanation for this inconsistency is that any gene-phenotype association is obscured by a gene-X-environment (GXE) interaction. We studied a healthy non-clinical sample (N=118) to determine whether the 5-HTTLPR interacts with current life events in...
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