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SUBMITTER: Chen FS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3161247 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Frances S FS Barth Maria E ME Johnson Stephen L SL Gotlib Ian H IH Johnson Susan C SC
Frontiers in psychology 20110825
Ordinary variations in human infants' attachment behaviors - their proclivity to seek and accept comfort from caregivers - are associated with a wide range of individual differences in psychological functioning in adults. The current investigation examined variation in the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene as one possible source of these variations in infant attachment. One hundred seventy-six infants (77 Caucasian, 99 non-Caucasian) were classified as securely or insecurely attached based on their ...[more]