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Common heritable contributions to low-risk trauma, high-risk trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, and major depression.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Mar 2012
Sartor Carolyn E, Grant Julia D, Lynskey Michael T, McCutcheon Vivia V, Waldron Mary, Statham Dixie J, Bucholz Kathleen K, Madden Pamela A F, Heath Andrew C, Martin Nicholas G, Nelson Elliot C
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CONTEXT: Understanding the relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors to trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and major depressive disorder (MDD) is critical to developing etiologic models of these conditions and their co-occurrence. OBJECTIVES: To quantify heritable influences on low-risk trauma, high-risk trauma, PTSD, and MDD and to estimate the degree of overlap between...
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