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Gene protects adults abused as children from depression
02-04-2008 · EurekAlert!Some forms of a gene that controls the body's response to stress hormones appear to protect adults who were abused in childhood from depression, psychiatrists have found. People who had been abused as children and who carried the most protective forms of the gene, called corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor one, had markedly lower measures of depression, compared with people with less protective forms.
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