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Psychiatric Risk Gene Cacna1c and Early Life Stress: Potential Gene-Environment interactions?

Poster

Published: May 22, 2018

Psychiatric Risk Gene Cacna1c and Early Life Stress: Potential Gene-Environment interactions? content piece image

Early life stress (ELS) is highly associated with development of psychopathology and mood disorders in adulthood.

Genetic studies have identified variation in the gene calcium voltage-gated channel subunit alpha1C (CACNA1C) to increase risk for several psychiatric disorders.

This poster assesses the expression of Cacna1c following prepubertal stress.