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SUBMITTER: Moons WG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4210353 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moons Wesley G WG Way Baldwin M BM Taylor Shelley E SE
Emotion (Washington, D.C.) 20140324 3
Oxytocin (OT) and a polymorphism (rs53576) in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) have been independently associated with stress reactivity, whereas oxytocin's sister peptide, arginine vasopressin (AVP) and polymorphisms in the vasopressin receptor gene (AVPR1A) have been independently associated with aggressive behavior. In this study, 68 men and 98 women were genotyped for the OXTR rs53576 polymorphism and the AVPR1A RS1 polymorphism. Baseline and poststressor levels of plasma OT, plasma AVP, po ...[more]