Epigenetics at the crossroads between genes, environment and resilience in anxiety disorders

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Schiele, M A ^a   Domschke, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; coping; DNA methylation; epigenetics; gene environment; histone modifications; microRNA; resilience

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; MICRORNA; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NEONATAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PREDICTION; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HISTONES; HUMANS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85044575798     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12423     Document Type: Review

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