ArticlePsychological medicine2015
Changes in genetic risk for emotional eating across the menstrual cycle: a longitudinal study.
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- Examining a window of vulnerability for affective symptoms in the mid-luteal phase of the menstrual cycle.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Article
- Exploring the possibility of parents' broad internalizing phenotype acting through passive gene-environment correlations on daughters' disordered eating.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- Combined oral contraceptive use and risk for binge eating in women: Potential gene × hormone interactions.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2022Review
- How nonshared environmental factors come to correlate with heredity.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- Gonadal Hormone Influences on Sex Differences in Binge Eating Across Development.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Review
- The effects of puberty on associations between mood/personality factors and disordered eating symptoms in girls.The International journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Examining the role of ovarian hormones in the association between worry and working memory across the menstrual cycle.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021Article
- Trait negative affect interacts with ovarian hormones to predict risk for emotional eating.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2021Article
- A Narrative Review of Sex Differences in Eating Disorders: Is There a Biological Basis?Clinical therapeutics · 2021Review
- Differences in genetic and environmental influences on body weight and shape concerns across pubertal development in females.Journal of psychiatric research · 2020Article
- Gonadal hormone contributions to individual differences in eating disorder risk.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2019Review
- Associations between ovarian hormones and emotional eating across the menstrual cycle: Do ovulatory shifts in hormones matter?The International journal of eating disorders · 2019Article
- Stress as a potential moderator of ovarian hormone influences on binge eating in women.F1000Research · 2019Review
- Estrogen moderates genetic influences on binge eating during puberty: Disruption of normative processes?Journal of abnormal psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious studies have shown significant within-person changes in binge eating and emotional eating across the menstrual cycle, with substantial increases in both phenotypes during post-ovulation. Increases in both estradiol and progesterone levels appear to account for these changes in phenotypic risk, possibly via increases in genetic effects. However, to date, no study has examined changes in genetic risk for binge phenotypes (or any other phenotype) across the menstrual cycle. The goal of the present study was to examine within-person changes in genetic risk for emotional eating scores across the menstrual cycle.
methodParticipants were 230 female twin pairs (460 twins) from the Michigan State University Twin Registry who completed daily measures of emotional eating for 45 consecutive days. Menstrual cycle phase was coded based on dates of menstrual bleeding and daily ovarian hormone levels.
resultsFindings revealed important shifts in genetic and environmental influences, where estimates of genetic influences were two times higher in post- as compared with pre-ovulation. Surprisingly, pre-ovulation was marked by a predominance of environmental influences, including shared environmental effects which have not been previously detected for binge eating phenotypes in adulthood.
conclusionsOur study was the first to examine within-person shifts in genetic and environmental influences on a behavioral phenotype across the menstrual cycle. Results highlight a potentially critical role for these shifts in risk for emotional eating across the menstrual cycle and underscore the need for additional, large-scale studies to identify the genetic and environmental factors contributing to menstrual cycle effects.
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