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Youth genetic vulnerability to maternal depressive symptoms: 5-HTTLPR as moderator of intergenerational transmission effects in a multiwave prospective study.
Depression and anxiety - 1 Mar 2013
Oppenheimer Caroline W, Hankin Benjamin L, Young Jami F, Smolen Andrew
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BACKGROUND: Maternal depressive symptoms are a strong predictor of increases in depressive symptoms in offspring, yet knowledge of individual differences that may moderate the association between youth and maternal symptoms is still relatively scant. Youth genetic susceptibility to maternal depressive symptoms in particular is a nearly unexplored area of research. METHODS: This study used a multiwave prospective...
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