Does the oxytocin receptor polymorphism (rs2254298) confer 'vulnerability' for psychopathology or 'differential susceptibility'? insights from evolution

BMC Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Brüne, Martin ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN SIZE; DEPRESSION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROANATOMY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SOCIAL COGNITION; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DEPRESSION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RISK;

EID: 84860679675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-38     Document Type: Article

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