Understanding posttraumatic stress disorder: Insights from the methylome

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-68

  Malan Muller S ^a   Seedat, S ^a   Hemmings, S M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anxiety; CNS methylation; DNA hydroxymethylation; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Posttraumatic stress disorder; PTSD animal models; Trauma associated methylation changes

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CPG ISLAND; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPIGENETICS; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

ANIMALIA;

ANXIETY; CNS METHYLATION; DNA HYDROXYMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PTSD ANIMAL MODELS; TRAUMA-ASSOCIATED METHYLATION CHANGES;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME; HUMANS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84891631360     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12102     Document Type: Article

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