Transcriptome-wide association study of post-trauma symptom trajectories identified GRIN3B as a potential biomarker for PTSD development

A Lori, K Schultebraucks, I Galatzer-Levy… - …, 2021 - nature.com
Biomarkers that predict symptom trajectories after trauma can facilitate early detection or
intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and may also advance our …

IL-18 Signaling in the Rat Central Amygdala Is Disrupted in a Comorbid Model of Post-Traumatic Stress and Alcohol Use Disorder

V Borgonetti, B Cruz, V Vozella, S Khom, MQ Steinman… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) and anxiety disorders are frequently comorbid and share
dysregulated neuroimmune-related pathways. Here, we used our established rat model of …

Association of HLA locus alleles with posttraumatic stress disorder

S Katrinli, A Lori, V Kilaru, S Carter, A Powers… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Immune dysregulation has been widely observed in those with posttraumatic
stress disorder (PTSD). An individual's immune response is shaped, in part, by the highly …

Genomewide association study of alcohol dependence and related traits in a Thai population

J Gelernter, H Zhou, YZ Nuñez… - Alcoholism: clinical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background Alcohol use (both quantity and dependence) is moderately heritable, and
genomewide association studies (GWAS) have identified risk genes in European, African …

Largest genome-wide association study for PTSD identifies genetic risk loci in European and African ancestries and implicates novel biological pathways

CM Nievergelt, AX Maihofer, T Klengel, EG Atkinson… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common and debilitating disorder. The risk of
PTSD following trauma is heritable, but robust common variants have yet to be identified by …

Ethanol activates immune response in lymphoblastoid cells

JN McClintick, JA Tischfield, L Deng, M Kapoor, X Xuei… - Alcohol, 2019 - Elsevier
The short-term effects of alcohol on gene expression in brain tissue cannot directly be
studied in humans. Because neuroimmune signaling is altered by alcohol, immune cells are …

Characterization of genomic regions escaping epigenetic reprogramming in sheep

CU Braz, MM Passamonti… - Environmental Epigenetics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The mammalian genome undergoes two global epigenetic reprogramming events during
the establishment of primordial germ cells and in the pre-implantation embryo after …

Methylation quantitative trait loci are largely consistent across disease states in Crohn's disease

S Venkateswaran, HK Somineni, V Kilaru, S Katrinli… - G3, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Recently, we identified 1,189 CpG sites whose DNA methylation level in blood
associated with Crohn's disease. Here, we examined associations between DNA …

Innate fear responses are reflected in the blood epigenome of rhesus macaques

H Bravo-Rivera, R Lardenoije, D Merced, A Mas-Rivera… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Fear and anxiety are complex physiological states aimed at promoting adaptive behaviors.
They are also core symptoms of many neuropsychiatric disorders; yet, our knowledge of the …

Improving diagnosis and characterization of Primary Aldosteronism through different-omics approaches

L Bertolone - 2020 - iris.univr.it
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common form of secondary hypertension and it is
characterized by a Renin Angiotensin System (RAAS) independent overproduction of …