Sex-based contributors to and consequences of post-traumatic stress disorder

LV Hiscox, TH Sharp, M Olff, S Seedat… - Current psychiatry …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Women are twice as likely to develop post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) compared to men after a traumatic experience. The purpose of this mini …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing discovery of genetic variants for posttraumatic stress disorder through integration of quantitative phenotypes and trauma exposure information

AX Maihofer, KW Choi, JRI Coleman, NP Daskalakis… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is heritable and a potential consequence
of exposure to traumatic stress. Evidence suggests that a quantitative approach to PTSD …

Using phenotype risk scores to enhance gene discovery for generalized anxiety disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder

FR Wendt, GA Pathak, JD Deak, F De Angelis… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
UK Biobank (UKB) is a key contributor in mental health genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) but only~ 31% of participants completed the Mental Health Questionnaire (“MHQ …

Causal atlas between inflammatory bowel disease and mental disorders: a bi-directional 2-sample Mendelian randomization study

X Yang, L Yang, T Zhang, H Zhang, H Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The brain-gut axis link has attracted increasing attention, with observational
studies suggesting that the relationship between common mental disorders and …

Genomic influences on self-reported childhood maltreatment

S Dalvie, AX Maihofer, JRI Coleman, B Bradley… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
Childhood maltreatment is highly prevalent and serves as a risk factor for mental and
physical disorders. Self-reported childhood maltreatment appears heritable, but the specific …

Integrating human brain proteomes with genome-wide association data implicates novel proteins in post-traumatic stress disorder

TS Wingo, ES Gerasimov, Y Liu, DM Duong… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several risk loci for post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD); however, how they confer PTSD risk remains unclear. We aimed to …

Longitudinal epigenome-wide association studies of three male military cohorts reveal multiple CpG sites associated with post-traumatic stress disorder

C Snijders, AX Maihofer, A Ratanatharathorn… - Clinical …, 2020 - Springer
Background Epigenetic mechanisms have been suggested to play a role in the development
of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here, blood-derived DNA methylation data …

Polygenic risk score as clinical utility in psychiatry: a clinical viewpoint

M Ikeda, T Saito, T Kanazawa, N Iwata - Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have detected many susceptible variants for
common diseases, including psychiatric disorders. However, because of the small effect size …

Circulating proteins influencing psychiatric disease: A Mendelian randomization study

T Lu, V Forgetta, CMT Greenwood, S Zhou… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background There is a pressing need for novel drug targets for psychiatric disorders.
Circulating proteins are potential candidates because they are relatively easy to measure …

Genome-wide association study of over 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides novel biological insights

L Jones, K Gordon-Smith, A Perry - Nature Genetics, 2021 - eprints.worc.ac.uk
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a
genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 41,917 BD cases and 371,549 controls of …