A genome-wide identified risk variant for PTSD is a methylation quantitative trait locus and confers decreased cortical activation to fearful faces

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 168, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 327-336

  Almli, Lynn M ^a   Stevens, Jennifer S ^a   Smith, Alicia K ^a   Kilaru, Varun ^a   Meng, Qian ^b   Flory, Janine ^c,j   Abu Amara, Duna ^d   Hammamieh, Rasha ^e   Yang, Ruoting ^f   Mercer, Kristina B ^a   Binder, Elizabeth B ^a,g   Bradley, Bekh ^a,c   Hamilton, Steven ^h   Jett, Marti ^e   Yehuda, Rachel ^c,j   Marmar, Charles R ^d   Ressler, Kerry J ^a,i  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Weill Medical Center   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e US Army Center for Environmental Health Research   (United States)

^f FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^j Traumatic Stress Studies Division   (United States)

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Author keywords

Epigenetic; FMRI; GWAS; MeQTL; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME 4P; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EPIGENETICS; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHYLATION QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; DNA METHYLATION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; VETERAN;

ADULT; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 84930927617     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32315     Document Type: Article

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