Sensitive parenting is associated with plasma oxytocin and polymorphisms in the OXTR and CD38 genes

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 175-181

  Feldman, Ruth ^a   Zagoory Sharon, Orna ^a   Weisman, Omri ^a   Schneiderman, Inna ^a   Gordon, Ilanit ^a   Maoz, Rina ^b   Shalev, Idan ^b   Ebstein, Richard P ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

CD38; human social affiliation; oxytocin; oxytocin receptor (OXTR); parent infant bonding; parent infant synchrony; parental touch

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CD38 GENE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GAZE; GENE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXTR GENE; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SOCIAL DISABILITY;

ADULT; ALLELES; ANTIGENS, CD38; DNA; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; OXYTOCIN; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863637351     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.12.025     Document Type: Article

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