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Bidirectional rescue of extreme genetic predispositions to anxiety: impact of CRH receptor 1 as epigenetic plasticity gene in the amygdala.
Translational psychiatry - 11 Feb 2014
Sotnikov S V, Markt P O, Malik V, Chekmareva N Y, Naik R R, Sah A, Singewald N, Holsboer F, Czibere L, Landgraf R
Abstract excerpt
The continuum of physiological anxiety up to psychopathology is not merely dependent on genes, but is orchestrated by the interplay of genetic predisposition, gene x environment and epigenetic interactions. Accordingly, inborn anxiety is considered a polygenic, multifactorial trait, likely to be shaped by environmentally driven plasticity at the genomic level. We here took advantage of the extreme genetic...
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