Looking beyond the DNA sequence: The relevance of DNA methylation processes for the stress-diathesis model of depression

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1615, 2013, Pages

  Booij, Linda ^a,b,c,d   Wang, Dongsha ^a,c   Lévesque, Mélissa L ^a,b   Tremblay, Richard E ^a,b,e   Szyf, Moshe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Depression; DNA methylation; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Mood disorders; Serotonin; SLC6A4

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HORMONE; MENTAL HEALTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; NEUROLOGY; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84874508475     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0251     Document Type: Review

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