Gene Linked to Increased Risk of PTSD

By Mo Costandi of Nature magazine European researchers have identified a gene that is linked to improved memory, but also to increased risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dominique de Quervain of the University of Basel in Switzerland and his colleagues recruited around 700 healthy young volunteers, obtaining DNA samples from them to analyze the sequence of their PRKCA gene.

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Gene Linked to Increased Risk of PTSD