Does 5-HTTLPR moderate the effect of the quality of environmental context on maternal sensitivity? Testing the differential susceptibility hypothesis
Baião et al.
The finding, in our words
Using OraGene kits for saliva collection from 210 Portuguese mothers, this study found that the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism moderates environmental effects on maternal sensitivity. While generalisability may be limited by the Portuguese community sample, the work shows that decentralised saliva sampling is viable for gene-environment interaction studies.
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