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Variations in the promoter region of the serotonin transporter gene and biased attention for emotional information: a meta-analysis.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Feb 2012
Pergamin-Hight Lee, Bakermans-Kranenburg Marian J, van Ijzendoorn Marinus H, Bar-Haim Yair
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BACKGROUND: Selective attention to negative information has been strongly implicated in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety and offered as a potential intermediate phenotype for anxiety disorders. Attention biases have been studied in relation to a polymorphism in the promoter region of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) offering equivocal findings. The present meta-analysis tested whether the extant...
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