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ReviewDialogues in clinical neuroscience2019

A review of epigenetic contributions 
to post-traumatic stress disorder
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Hunter Howie, Chuda M Rijal, Kerry J Ressler

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Review in Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
40citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Epigenetics, Resilience, Protective Factors and Factors Promoting Positive Outcomes: A Scoping Review.International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience · 2025
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  10. Facing stress and inflammation: From the cell to the planet.World journal of experimental medicine · 2024
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  19. A Review of MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hunter HowieAartners Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, US; McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, US.
Chuda M RijalPartners Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, US; McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, US.
Kerry J ResslerPartners Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, US; McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, US; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, US.
McLean Hospital · US

Funding

SPARED CenterP50MH115874 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI ROSSO, ISABELLE M · 2019 to 2023
$13.7M
Psychiatric Genomics Consortium for PTSDR01MH106595 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KARESTAN C KOENEN, Caroline M Nievergelt · 2016 to 2026
$8.4M
2 of 2 Prospective Determination of Psychobiological Risk Factors for PTSDR01MH094757 · NIMH · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI RESSLER, KERRY J. · 2012 to 2016
$2.3M
Neurobiology of Traumatic Dissociation in a Transdiagnostic Study of Women with Childhood MaltreatmentR21MH112956 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI KAUFMAN, MILISSA L · 2017 to 2018
$446k
NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH115874NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH094757NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH106595NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH112956
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a syndrome which serves as a classic example of psychiatric disorders that result from the intersection of nature and nurture, or gene and environment. By definition, PTSD requires the experience of a traumatic exposure, and yet data suggest that the risk for PTSD in the aftermath of trauma also has a heritable (genetic) component. Thus, PTSD appears to require both a biological (genetic) predisposition that differentially alters how the individual responds to or recovers from trauma exposure. Epigenetics is defined as the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself, and more recently it has come to refer to direct alteration of DNA regulation, but without altering the primary sequence of DNA, or the genetic code. With regards to PTSD, epigenetics provides one way for environmental exposure to be "written" upon the genome, as a direct result of gene and environment (trauma) interactions. This review provides an overview of the main currently understood types of epigenetic regulation, including DNA methylation, histone regulation of chromatin, and noncoding RNA regulation of gene expression. Furthermore, we examine recent literature related to how these methods of epigenetic regulation may be involved in differential risk and resilience for PTSD in the aftermath of trauma.
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Indexed as

Gene-Environment InteractionDNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansMajor Depressive DisorderStress Disorders, Post-Traumaticchildhood abuseDNA methylationepigeneticsgeneticshistone acetylationnoncoding RNApost-traumatic 
stress disordertrauma

Identifiers

PMID31949409
PMCPMC6952751
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