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SUBMITTER: Tops M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3208383 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in psychiatry 20111104
Oxytocin has been shown to facilitate social aspects of sensory processing, thereby enhancing social communicative behaviors and empathy. Here we report that compared to the AA/AG genotypes, the presumably more efficient GG genotype of an oxytocin receptor gene polymorphism (OXTR rs53576) that has previously been associated with increased sensitivity of social processing is related to less self-reported difficulty in hearing and understanding people when there is background noise. The present re ...[more]