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Life stress, 5-HTTLPR and mental disorder: findings from a 30-year longitudinal study.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 Feb 2011
Fergusson David M, Horwood L John, Miller Allison L, Kennedy Martin A
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BACKGROUND: Recent meta-analyses have raised concerns about the replicability of gene × environment interactions involving the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) in moderating the associations between adverse life events and mental disorders. AIMS: To use data gathered over the course of a 30-year longitudinal study of a New Zealand birth cohort to test the hypothesis that the presence of short ('s') alleles...
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