PTSD Risk in Women Tied to Genetics - 0 views
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Frederick Smith on 25 Feb 11Nature study - urban women w/ chronic illness (but not men). "Heavily traumatized civilian women with two copies of a specific single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the ADCYAP1R1 gene were more likely to show PTSD with an odds ratio of 1.66 (95% CI 1.32 to 2.09) relative to similar women without the condition, Kessler and colleagues found."