Variations in heritability of cortisol reactivity to stress as a function of early familial adversity among 19-month-old twins

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 211-218

  Ouellet Morin, Isabelle ^a   Boivin, Michel ^a   Dionne, Ginette ^a   Lupien, Sonia J ^b   Arsenault, Louise ^e   Barr, Ronald G ^c   Pérusse, Daniel ^d   Tremblay, Richard E ^d,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Universite Paris Sud   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANADA; CHILD; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS; TWINS;

AROUSAL; CHILD ABUSE; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; QUEBEC; RISK FACTORS; SALIVA; SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 38949156807     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2007.27     Document Type: Article

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