Psychiatric Risk Gene Cacna1c and Early Life Stress: Potential Gene-Environment interactions?

Early life stress (ELS) is highly associated with development of psychopathology and mood disorders in adulthood.

Genetic studies have identified variation in the gene calcium voltage-gated channel subunit alpha1C (CACNA1C) to increase risk for several psychiatric disorders.

This poster assesses the expression of Cacna1c following prepubertal stress.