Untangling genetic networks of panic, phobia, fear and anxiety.
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.
Villafuerte
Sandra
S
Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan MI 48109-0720, USA. margit@umich.edu
Burmeister
Margit
M
D000818:Animals; D001007:Anxiety / Q000235:genetics*; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000235:genetics*; D005239:Fear / Q000502:physiology*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000235:genetics*; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000235:genetics*