Genetic pathways linking oxytocin-vasotocin hypothalamic subunit architecture with psychiatric and metabolic traits.

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The neuropeptides oxytocin and vasotocin are predominantly produced in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the anterior-inferior, anterior-superior and tubular-superior hypothalamic subunits. Evidence suggests that oxytocin and vasotocin signaling play a role in both physiology and behavior, and that dysfunction of these signaling systems may contribute to the co-occurrence of metabolic and psychiatric...

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• Genome-Wide Association Study
• Hypothalamus
• Mental Disorders
• Oxytocin
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide