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A putatively functional polymorphism in the HTR2C gene is associated with depressive symptoms in white females reporting significant life stress.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Brummett Beverly H, Babyak Michael A, Williams Redford B, Harris Kathleen Mullan, Jiang Rong, Kraus William E, Singh Abanish, Costa Paul T, Georgiades Anastasia, Siegler Ilene C
Abstract excerpt
Psychosocial stress is well known to be positively associated with subsequent depressive symptoms. Cortisol response to stress may be one of a number of biological mechanisms that links psychological stress to depressive symptoms, although the precise causal pathway remains unclear. Activity of t...
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