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ArticleScientific reports2018

DNA methylation in adolescents with anxiety disorder: a longitudinal study.

Andressa Bortoluzzi, Giovanni Abrahão Salum, Eduarda Dias da Rosa, Vinicius de Saraiva Chagas, Mauro Antônio Alves Castro, Gisele Gus Manfro

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Andressa BortoluzziAnxiety Disorders Outpatient Program for Children and Adolescents, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS/Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, HCPA, Porto Alegre, Brazil. andresbt10@gmail.com.
Giovanni Abrahão SalumAnxiety Disorders Outpatient Program for Children and Adolescents, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS/Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, HCPA, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Eduarda Dias da RosaBasic Research and Advanced Investigations in Neurosciences, BRAIN Laboratory, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, HCPA, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Vinicius de Saraiva ChagasPost Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil.
Mauro Antônio Alves CastroPost Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil.
Gisele Gus ManfroAnxiety Disorders Outpatient Program for Children and Adolescents, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS/Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, HCPA, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul · BRUniversidade Federal do Paraná · BRHospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre · BR

Funding

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio Grande do Sul) 10/0018-3Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio Grande do Sul) 11/2043-0Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) 12-0254Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation | Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) 305524/2009-7Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation | Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) 476366/2009-7Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation | Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) 483032/2007-7
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anxiety disorders (AD) typically manifest in children and adolescents and might persist into adulthood. However, there are still few data concerning epigenetic mechanisms associated with onset, persistence or remission of AD over time. We investigated a cohort of adolescents and young adults at baseline (age; 13.19 ± 2.38) and after 5 years and classified them according to the AD diagnosis and their longitudinal trajectories into 4 groups: (1) Typically Developing Comparisons (TDC; control group, n = 14); (2) Incident (AD in the second evaluation only, n = 11); (3) Persistent (AD in both evaluations, n = 14) and (4) Remittent (AD in the first evaluation only, n = 8). DNA methylation was evaluated with the Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip from saliva samples collected at both evaluations. Gene set enrichment analysis was applied to consider biological pathways. We found decreased DNA methylation in TDC group while the chronic cases of AD presented hypermethylation in central nervous system development pathways. Moreover, we showed that this persistent group also presented hypermethylation while the other three groups were associated with hypomethylation in nervous system development pathway. Incidence and remission groups were associated with increased and decreased methylation in neuron development pathways, respectively. Larger studies are likely to detect specific genes relevant to AD.

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AdolescentAnxietyAnxiety DisordersChildCohort StudiesCpG IslandsDNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleYoung Adult

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PMID30218003
PMCPMC6138655
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