Oxytocin receptor gene, childhood maltreatment and borderline personality disorder features among male inmates in China

Abstract Background Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is caused by a variety of biological and environmental factors. Accumulating evidence suggests that childhood maltreatment is a risk environmental factor in the development of BPD, but research on the genetic pathology of BPD is still in its...

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Published in:	BMC Psychiatry
Main Authors:	Min Zhang, Na Liu, Haocheng Chen, Ning Zhang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2020-06-01
Subjects:	Borderline personality disorder OXTR Single-nucleotide polymorphism Childhood maltreatment
Online Access:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12888-020-02710-0