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Interaction between FKBP5 and childhood trauma and risk of aggressive behavior.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Jan 2012
Bevilacqua Laura, Carli Vladimir, Sarchiapone Marco, George Danielle K, Goldman David, Roy Alec, Enoch Mary-Anne
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CONTEXT: Childhood trauma may predispose individuals to aggressive behavior, and both childhood trauma and aggressive behavior are associated with hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether there would be an interaction between genetic variation in FKBP5 and childhood trauma in predicting aggressive behavior. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. Four FKBP5 single-nucleotide...
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