Catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype moderates the effect of disorganized attachment on social development in young children

Beate Wold Hygen, Ismail Cuneyt Guzey, Jay Belsky, Turid Suzanne Berg-Nielsen, Lars Wichstrøm

Development and Psychopathology, 2014. DOI 10.1017/s0954579414000492

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The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 successful.

Disorganization, COMT, and Children's Social Behavior: The Norwegian Hypothesis of Legacy of Disorganized Attachment, Li et al. (2016). Outcome recorded: successful. As predicted, competitive model-fitting indicated that disorganized infants carrying Met alleles engage in more positive behavior and less negative behavior than other children at age 5 and 11, with the reverse true of Val/Val homozygotes, seemingly consistent with caregiving-controlling and punitiv View paper