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Cytokine gene variation is associated with depressive symptom trajectories in oncology patients and family caregivers.
European journal of oncology nursing : the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society - 1 Jun 2013
Dunn Laura B, Aouizerat Bradley E, Langford Dale J, Cooper Bruce A, Dhruva Anand, Cataldo Janine K, Baggott Christina R, Merriman John D, Dodd Marylin, West Claudia, Paul Steven M, Miaskowski Christine
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PURPOSE: Depressive symptoms are common in cancer patients and their family caregivers (FCs). While these symptoms are characterized by substantial interindividual variability, the factors that predict this variability remain largely unknown. This study sought to confirm latent classes of oncology patients and FCs with distinct depressive symptom trajectories and to examine differences in phenotypic and genotypic...
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