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SUBMITTER: Rodrigues SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2795557 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20091123 50
Oxytocin, a peptide that functions as both a hormone and neurotransmitter, has broad influences on social and emotional processing throughout the body and the brain. In this study, we tested how a polymorphism (rs53576) of the oxytocin receptor relates to two key social processes related to oxytocin: empathy and stress reactivity. Compared with individuals homozygous for the G allele of rs53576 (GG), individuals with one or two copies of the A allele (AG/AA) exhibited lower behavioral and dispos ...[more]