Untangling genetic networks of panic, phobia, fear and anxiety
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* Corresponding author: Margit Burmeister margit@umich.edu
1 Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan MI 48109-0720, USA
2 Department of Psychiatry and Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan MI 48109-0720, USA
Genome Biology 2003, 4:224 doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-8-224
Published: 28 July 2003Abstract
As is the case for normal individual variation in anxiety levels, the conditions panic disorder, agoraphobia and other phobias have a significant genetic basis. Recent reports have started to untangle the genetic relationships between predispositions to anxiety and anxiety disorders.