Effects of the Social Environment and Stress on Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene Methylation: A Systematic Review

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 87-96

  Turecki, Gustavo ^a   Meaney, Michael J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Early life adversity; Epigenetics; Glucocorticoid receptor; Social environment; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DNA; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; NR3C1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NR3C1 PROTEIN, RAT;

ANXIETY DISORDER; BINDING SITE; BORDERLINE STATE; BULIMIA; DNA METHYLATION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EPIGENETICS; EXON; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; PARENTAL STRESS; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; RAT;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXONS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84951569507     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.11.022     Document Type: Review

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