Acute and posttraumatic stress symptoms in a prospective gene X environment study of a University Campus Shooting

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-97

  Mercer, Kristina B ^a,c   Orcutt, Holly K ^d   Quinn, Jeffrey F ^a   Fitzgerald, Caitlin A ^a   Conneely, Karen N ^a   Barfield, Richard T ^b   Gillespie, Charles F ^a   Ressler, Kerry J ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALIVA; SYMPTOM; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC, ACUTE; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855307372     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.109     Document Type: Article

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