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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016

PER1 rs3027172 Genotype Interacts with Early Life Stress to Predict Problematic Alcohol Use, but Not Reward-Related Ventral Striatum Activity.

David A A Baranger, Chloé Ifrah, Aric A Prather, Caitlin E Carey, Nadia S Corral-Frías, Emily Drabant Conley, Ahmad R Hariri, Ryan Bogdan

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

David A A BarangerBrain Laboratory, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. LouisSt. Louis, MO, USA; Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. LouisSt. Louis, MO, USA.
Chloé IfrahBrain Laboratory, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO, USA.
Aric A PratherDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA, USA.
Caitlin E CareyBrain Laboratory, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO, USA.
Nadia S Corral-FríasDepartment of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO, USA.
Emily Drabant Conley23andMe Mountain View, CA, USA.
Ahmad R HaririLaboratory of NeuroGenetics, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University Durham, NC, USA.
Ryan BogdanBrain Laboratory, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. LouisSt. Louis, MO, USA; Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. LouisSt. Louis, MO, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. LouisSt. Louis, MO, USA.
Washington University in St. Louis · US23andMe (United States) · USDuke University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Quantifying Individual Differences in Midlife Structural Brain Integrity Associated with Later AD/ADRD RiskR01AG049789 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI AHMAD R. HARIRI, TERRIE E MOFFITT · 2015 to 2026
$10.6M
Systems and Molecular Neurobiology Training ProgramT32GM008151 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI SNYDER, LAWRENCE H · 1985 to 2019
$6.5M
Neurogenetic Pathways to Drug Use in Young AdultsR01DA033369 · NIDA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI HARIRI, AHMAD R. · 2013 to 2016
$1.4M
Sleep as a novel pathway linking chronic psychological stress and inflammationK08HL112961 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI PRATHER, ARIC ANDREW · 2012 to 2016
$723k
NHLBI NIH HHS K08 HL112961NIA NIH HHS R01 AG049789NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA033369NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008151
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increasing evidence suggests that the circadian and stress regulatory systems contribute to alcohol use disorder (AUD) risk, which may partially arise through effects on reward-related neural function. The C allele of the PER1 rs3027172 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) reduces PER1 expression in cells incubated with cortisol and has been associated with increased risk for adult AUD and problematic drinking among adolescents exposed to high levels of familial psychosocial adversity. Using data from undergraduate students who completed the ongoing Duke Neurogenetics Study (DNS) (n = 665), we tested whether exposure to early life stress (ELS; Childhood Trauma Questionnaire) moderates the association between rs3027172 genotype and later problematic alcohol use (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test) as well as ventral striatum (VS) reactivity to reward (card-guessing task while functional magnetic resonance imaging data were acquired). Initial analyses found that PER1 rs3027172 genotype interacted with ELS to predict both problematic drinking and VS reactivity; minor C allele carriers, who were also exposed to elevated ELS reported greater problematic drinking and exhibited greater ventral striatum reactivity to reward-related stimuli. When gene × covariate and environment × covariate interactions were controlled for, the interaction predicting problematic alcohol use remained significant (p < 0.05, corrected) while the interaction predicting VS reactivity was no longer significant. These results extend our understanding of relationships between PER1 genotype, ELS, and problematic alcohol use, and serve as a cautionary tale on the importance of controlling for potential confounders in studies of moderation including gene × environment interactions.

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alcoholcircadianearly life stressGxEPER1stressventral striatum

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PMID27065929
PMCPMC4814479
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