Oxytocin receptor gene methylation: converging multilevel evidence for a role in social anxiety

Ziegler, Christiane, Dannlowski, Udo, Bräuer, David, Stevens, Stephan, Laeger, Inga, Wittmann, Hannah, Kugel, Harald, Dobel, Christian +11 more·2015·Neuropsychopharmacology
DOI 10.1038/npp.2015.2

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