MORC1 exhibits cross-species differential methylation in association with early life stress as well as genome-wide association with MDD

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Nieratschker, V ^a,b   Massart, R ^c   Gilles, M ^a   Luoni, A ^d   Suderman, M J ^c,e   Krumm, B ^a   Meier, S ^a   Witt, S H ^a   Nothen M M ^f   Suomi, S J ^g   Peus, V ^a   Scharnholz, B ^a   Dukal, H ^a   Hohmeyer, C ^a   Wolf, I A C ^a   Cirulli, F ^h   Gass, P ⁱ   Sutterlin M W ^j   Filsinger, B ^k   Laucht, M ^a   Riva, M A ^d   Rietschel, M ^a   Deuschle, M ^a   Szyf, M ^c   more..

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^g EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^h ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

ⁱ MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^k Laboratory of Comparative Ethology Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institutes of Health ^*  (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; MORC FAMILY CW TYPE ZINC FINGER 1; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MORC1 GENE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROMOTER REGION; PYROSEQUENCING; RAT; RHESUS MONKEY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CD34+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CPG ISLAND; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; OVERLAPPING GENE; PRENATAL STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 84907361538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2014.75     Document Type: Article

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