Role of mother's genes and environment in postpartum depression

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 8189-8193

  Mitchell, Colter ^a   Notterman, Daniel ^a,b   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^c   Hobcraft, John ^e   Garfinkel, Irwin ^d   Jaeger, Kate ^a   Kotenko, Iulia ^a   McLanahan, Sara ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fertility; Gene environment interplay

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

5 HTT GENE; 5 HTTLPR GENE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 79957725163     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014129108     Document Type: Article

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