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Genomic predictors of combat stress vulnerability and resilience in U.S. Marines: A genome-wide association study across multiple ancestries implicates PRTFDC1 as a potential PTSD gene.
Psychoneuroendocrinology - 1 Jan 2015
Nievergelt Caroline M, Maihofer Adam X, Mustapic Maja, Yurgil Kate A, Schork Nicholas J, Miller Mark W, Logue Mark W, Geyer Mark A, Risbrough Victoria B, O'Connor Daniel T, Baker Dewleen G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Research on the etiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has rapidly matured, moving from candidate gene studies to interrogation of the entire human genome in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Here we present the results of a GWAS performed on samples from combat-exposed U.S. Marines and Sailors from the Marine Resiliency Study (MRS) scheduled for deployment to Iraq and/or Afghanistan....
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