Genetic risk-factors for anxiety in healthy individuals: polymorphisms in genes important for the HPA axis

• Main Authors: Heléne Lindholm (Author), India Morrison (Author), Alexandra Krettek (Author), Dan Malm (Author), Giovanni Novembre (Author), Linda Handlin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Two important aspects for the development of anxiety disorders are genetic predisposition and alterations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. In order to identify genetic risk-factors for anxiety, the aim of this exploratory study was to investigate possible relatio...