Länk - Gen som ger eller motverkar depression beroende på kön

published Nov 30, 2007 06:14   by admin ( last modified Nov 30, 2007 06:14 )
Women who had experienced significant stress at some time in their lives and carried a shorter form of the gene showed more signs of depression than women who had the longer variant or were not stressed, but for men it was the long variant that was associated with more symptoms of depression, and the short variant was linked to fewer symptoms.


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