在国家瑞典双胞胎兄弟研究创伤后应激障碍中测试定量和质量的性效应

Ananda B Amstadter1, Sara L Lönn1, Shannon Cusack1

  • 1Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (Amstadter, Cusack, Kendler); Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden (Lönn, J. Sundquist, K. Sundquist); Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (J. Sundquist, K. Sundquist).

概括

创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 的遗传性受到遗传学和独特环境的影响. 这项研究发现,PTSD在女性中比男性更容易遗传,性别之间有明显的遗传影响.