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Hair Cortisol Level as a Biomarker for Altered Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Activity in Female Adolescents with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

  • Hongrong Luo

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Laboratory and Mental Health Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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  • Xun Hu

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Laboratory and Mental Health Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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  • Xiang Liu

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Laboratory and Mental Health Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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  • Xiaohong Ma

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Laboratory and Mental Health Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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  • Wanjun Guo

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Laboratory and Mental Health Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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  • Changjian Qiu

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Laboratory and Mental Health Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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  • Yingcheng Wang

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Laboratory and Mental Health Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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  • Qiang Wang

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Laboratory and Mental Health Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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  • Xiaowei Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Laboratory and Mental Health Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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  • Wei Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Laboratory and Mental Health Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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  • Gregory Hannum

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
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  • Kang Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
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  • Xiehe Liu

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Laboratory and Mental Health Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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  • Tao Li

      Affiliations

    • Psychiatric Laboratory and Mental Health Center, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Tao Li, M.D., Ph.D., Sichuan University, The Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China

Received 29 September 2011; received in revised form 23 December 2011; accepted 23 December 2011. published online 03 February 2012.
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 Authors HL and XH contributed equally to this work.

PII: S0006-3223(11)01270-4

doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.12.020

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