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Investigating the role of early childhood abuse and HPA axis genes in suicide attempters with bipolar disorder.
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Jun 2015
Breen Marie E, Seifuddin Fayaz, Zandi Peter P, Potash James B, Willour Virginia L
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OBJECTIVE: Genes and the environment both play a major role in the risk for attempted suicide, and environments harboring stressors, such as early childhood abuse, have been linked to suicidal behavior. Such environments also disrupt the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis pathway, which has been hypothesized to play a role in suicidal behavior. We investigated whether the risk for attempted suicide was...
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