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Interpersonal childhood adversity and stress generation in adolescence: Moderation by HPA axis multilocus genetic variation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2019

Meghan Huang  and
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Meghan Huang*
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Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Lisa R. Starr
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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Author for Correspondence: Meghan Huang, 494 Meliora Hall, Box 270266, Rochester, NY 14627; E-mail: [email protected].
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Abstract

Research suggests that childhood adversity (CA) is associated with a wide range of repercussions, including an increased likelihood of interpersonal stress generation. This may be particularly true following interpersonal childhood adversity (ICA) and for youth with high hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis-related genetic risk. In the current study, we applied a multilocus genetic profile score (MGPS) approach to measuring HPA axis-related genetic variation and examined its interaction with ICA to predict interpersonal stress generation in a sample of adolescents aged 14–17 (N = 241, Caucasian subsample n = 192). MGPSs were computed using 10 single nucleotide polymorphisms from HPA axis-related genes (CRHR1, NRC31, NRC32, and FKBP5). ICA significantly predicted greater adolescent interpersonal dependent stress. Additionally, MGPS predicted a stronger association between ICA and interpersonal dependent (but not independent or noninterpersonal dependent) stress. No gene–environment interaction (G×E) effects were found for noninterpersonal CA and MGPS in predicting adolescent interpersonal dependent stress. Effects remained after controlling for current depressive symptoms and following stratification by race. Findings extend existing G×E research on stress generation to HPA axis-related genetic variation and demonstrate effects specific to the interpersonal domain.

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childhood adversitygene–environment interactionHPA axisstress generation
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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , August 2020 , pp. 865 - 878
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