Sensitive parenting is associated with plasma oxytocin and polymorphisms in the OXTR and CD38 genes.
Biol Psychiatry.2012 Aug 1; 72(3):175-81
Colin Lever, University of Durham, UK. F1000 Neuroscience
16 Oct 2012 | New Finding
This paper extends previous work relating oxytocin levels to
parenting in humans and shows that individual differences in parenting are
partly attributable to polymorphisms in two oxytocin-related genes: 1) the
oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR); and 2) the gene for an enzyme that promotes
oxytocin release from hypothalamic neurons (CD38).
Oxytocin...
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