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Severity of eating disorder symptoms related to oxytocin receptor polymorphisms in anorexia nervosa.
Psychiatry research - 30 Aug 2015
Acevedo Summer F, Valencia Celeste, Lutter Michael, McAdams Carrie J
Abstract excerpt
Oxytocin is a peptide hormone important for social behavior and differences in psychological traits have been associated with variants of the oxytocin receptor gene in healthy people. We examined whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) correlated with clinical symptoms in women with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and healthy comparison (HC) women. Subjects completed...
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