Post-traumatic stress disorder: clinical and translational neuroscience from cells to circuits

KJ Ressler, S Berretta, VY Bolshakov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a maladaptive and debilitating psychiatric disorder,
characterized by re-experiencing, avoidance, negative emotions and thoughts, and …

Genetics of substance use disorders in the era of big data

J Gelernter, R Polimanti - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are conditions in which the use of legal or illegal
substances, such as nicotine, alcohol or opioids, results in clinical and functional …

Bi-ancestral depression GWAS in the Million Veteran Program and meta-analysis in> 1.2 million individuals highlight new therapeutic directions

DF Levey, MB Stein, FR Wendt, GA Pathak… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder is the most common neuropsychiatric disorder, affecting 11% of
veterans. Here we report results of a large meta-analysis of depression using data from the …

Mendelian randomization analyses support causal relationships between brain imaging-derived phenotypes and risk of psychiatric disorders

J Guo, K Yu, SS Dong, S Yao, Y Rong, H Wu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Observational studies have reported the correlations between brain imaging-derived
phenotypes (IDPs) and psychiatric disorders; however, whether the relationships are causal …

Genome-wide association analyses of post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptom subdomains in the Million Veteran Program

MB Stein, DF Levey, Z Cheng, FR Wendt… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We conducted genome-wide association analyses of over 250,000 participants of European
(EUR) and African (AFR) ancestry from the Million Veteran Program using electronic health …

International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex-and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

CM Nievergelt, AX Maihofer, T Klengel… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following trauma is heritable, but robust
common variants have yet to be identified. In a multi-ethnic cohort including over 30,000 …

Transcriptomic organization of the human brain in post-traumatic stress disorder

MJ Girgenti, J Wang, D Ji, DA Cruz, MB Stein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite extensive study of the neurobiological correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD), little is known about its molecular determinants. Here, differential gene expression …

Reproducible genetic risk loci for anxiety: results from∼ 200,000 participants in the Million Veteran Program

DF Levey, J Gelernter, R Polimanti… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Anxiety disorders are common and often disabling. The goal of this study was to
examine the genetic architecture of anxiety disorders and anxiety symptoms, which are also …

Modeling gene× environment interactions in PTSD using human neurons reveals diagnosis-specific glucocorticoid-induced gene expression

C Seah, MS Breen, T Rusielewicz, HN Bader… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop following severe trauma, but the extent to
which genetic and environmental risk factors contribute to individual clinical outcomes is …

Genome-wide analysis of a model-derived binge eating disorder phenotype identifies risk loci and implicates iron metabolism

D Burstein, TC Griffen, K Therrien, J Bendl… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Binge eating disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder, yet its genetic architecture
remains largely unknown. Studying BED is challenging because it is often comorbid with …