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Children's risk and resilience following a natural disaster: genetic vulnerability, posttraumatic stress, and depression.
Journal of affective disorders - 1 Dec 2013
La Greca Annette M, Lai Betty S, Joormann Jutta, Auslander Beth B, Short Mary A
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OBJECTIVE: We examined children's risk and resilience following a natural disaster, evaluating the role of stress, social support, and two genetic markers: the short allele of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR), and the met allele of the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF).Under high levels of hurricane exposure or hurricane-related stressors, we expected children displaying the markers would report...
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