Neighborhood crime and depressive symptoms among African American women: Genetic moderation and epigenetic mediation of effects

Man-Kit Lei, Steven R.H. Beach, Ronald L. Simons and Robert A. Philibert

Social Science & Medicine, 2015, vol. 146, issue C, 120-128

Abstract: Social scientists have long recognized the important role that neighborhood crime can play in stress-related disease, but very little is known about potential biosocial mechanisms that may link the experience of living in high-crime neighborhoods with depression.

Keywords: Neighborhood crime; Depressive symptoms; 5-HTTLPR; DNA methylation; African American women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.035

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