Influence of Child Abuse on Adult Depression

Rebekah Bradley, Elisabeth B. Binder, Michael P. Epstein, Yi‐lang Tang, Hemu P Nair, Wei Liu, Charles F. Gillespie, Tiina Berg, Mark Evces, D. Jeffrey Newport,

Archives of General Psychiatry · 2008 · 639 citations · 38 references

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Abstract

These data support the corticotropin-releasing hormone hypothesis of depression and suggest that a gene x environment interaction is important for the expression of depressive symptoms in adults with CRHR1 risk or protective alleles who have a history of child abuse.

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