Interaction between oxytocin genotypes and early experience predicts quality of mothering and postpartum mood.

Individual differences in maternal behavior are affected by both early life experiences and oxytocin, but little is known about genetic variation in oxytocin genes and its effects on mothering. We examined two polymorphisms in the oxytocin peptide gene OXT (rs2740210 and rs4813627) and one polymorph...

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Main Authors: Viara Mileva-Seitz, Meir Steiner, Leslie Atkinson, Michael J Meaney, Robert Levitan, James L Kennedy, Marla B Sokolowski, Alison S Fleming
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3630168?pdf=render