Dysregulated immune system networks in war veterans with PTSD is an outcome of altered miRNA expression and DNA methylation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bam, Marpe ^a   Yang, Xiaoming ^a,b   Zumbrun, Elizabeth E ^a   Zhong, Yin ^a   Zhou, Juhua ^a,d   Ginsberg, Jay P ^b   Leyden, Quinne ^b   Zhang, Jiajia ^c   Nagarkatti, Prakash S ^a   Nagarkatti, Mitzi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Dorn Research Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d LUDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ADULT; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VETERAN;

ADULT; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 84982171757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep31209     Document Type: Article

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