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DRD2 and SLC6A3 moderate impact of maternal depressive symptoms on infant cortisol.
Psychoneuroendocrinology - 1 Dec 2015
Ludmer Jaclyn A, Levitan Robert, Gonzalez Andrea, Kennedy James, Villani Vanessa, Masellis Mario, Basile Vincenzo S, Atkinson Leslie
Abstract excerpt
Both maternal depressive symptoms and infants' dopamine-related genetic characteristics have been linked to infants' hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) functioning. This study investigated the interactive influence of maternal depressive symptoms and infant DRD2 and SLC6A3 genotypes on infant cortisol reactivity; whether this interaction reflects diathesis-stress or differential susceptibility; and whether this...
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