Influences of maternal and paternal PTSD on epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor gene in Holocaust survivor offspring

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 171, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 872-880

  Yehuda, Rachel ^a   Daskalakis, Nikolaos P ^a   Lehrner, Amy ^a   Desarnaud, Frank ^a   Bader, Heather N ^a   Makotkine, Iouri ^a   Flory, Janine D ^a   Bierer, Linda M ^a   Meaney, Michael J ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; EPIGENETICS; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOLOCAUST; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MATERNAL POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; NR3C1 GENE; PATERNAL POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; SELF REPORT;

ADULT CHILDREN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FATHERS; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL FUNCTION TESTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84904251792     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.13121571     Document Type: Article

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