​Anneli and Viveka Have Each Had Genetic Testing

question 20

Multiple Choice

​Anneli and Viveka have each had genetic testing. Anneli has been identified as having a high genetic risk for depression; Viveka has been identified as having a low genetic risk for depression. Based on Kendler and colleagues' 2007 findings, what is likely?

• A) ​Stress will be more predictive of depression for Anneli than for Viveka.
• B) ​Stress will be more predictive of depression for Viveka than for Anneli.
• C) ​Stress will be equally predictive of depression for both of these women.
• D) ​Stress will be no more predictive of depression for either of the women.

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Definitions:

Veins

Blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart, typically carrying deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart except in the case of pulmonary veins.

Hemostasis

The physiological process by which bleeding ceases, involving blood vessel constriction and clot formation.

Thrombin

An enzyme in blood plasma that causes the clotting of blood by converting fibrinogen to fibrin.

Systole

Contractile phase of the cardiac cycle.