title: Untangling genetic networks of panic, phobia, fear and anxiety.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan MI 48109-0720, USA. margit@umich.edu
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Villafuerte
authors.forename: Margit
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Burmeister
mesh_terms: 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*