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Is agoraphobia hereditary?
There are twin studies that suggest that there may be a genetic
component to agoraphobia. However, these research findings
do not indicate that people inherit agoraphobia. Instead
they suggest that people inherit a predisposition for
anxiety or an excitable personality type.
One such study, conducted in the mid 1980's at the
University of Washington, showed that panic disorders
(including agoraphobia) are related to oversensitivity in a
sensory region of the brain that is transmitted through
chromosomes.
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