ReviewPsychological medicine2021
Posttraumatic stress disorder: from gene discovery to disease biology.
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- Epigenome-wide association studies identify novel DNA methylation sites associated with PTSD: a meta-analysis of 23 military and civilian cohorts.Genome medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Identifying differential interactions of potentially traumatic experiences with genetic risk for posttraumatic stress disorder.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026Review
- Shared genetic architecture of posttraumatic stress disorder with cardiovascular imaging, risk, and diagnoses.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Integration of Metabolomic and Brain Imaging Data Highlights Pleiotropy Among Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Glycoprotein Acetyls, and Pallidum Structure.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Post-traumatic stress disorder: evolving conceptualization and evidence, and future research directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2025Article
- Sex-stratified Genomic Structural Equation Models of Posttraumatic Stress Inform PTSD Etiology: L'utilisation de la modélisation génomique par équations structurelles stratifiée par sexe du stress post-traumatique pour expliquer l'étiologie du TSPT.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2025Article
- Chronobiology in Paediatric Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Harmonizing Care with Biological Clocks.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Genetics of posttraumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular conditions using Life's Essential 8, Electronic Health Records, and Heart Imaging.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Epigenome-wide association studies identify novel DNA methylation sites associated with PTSD: A meta-analysis of 23 military and civilian cohorts.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Activation of GPER1 by G1 prevents PTSD-like behaviors in mice: Illustrating the mechanisms from BDNF/TrkB to mitochondria and synaptic connection.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Article
- Candidate biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: state of the field.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2023Article
- Sex-Specific Genetic and Transcriptomic Liability to Neuroticism.Biological psychiatry · 2023Article
- Toward a dual process model of moral injury and traumatic illness.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
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Abstract
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex mental disorder afflicting approximately 7% of the population. The diverse number of traumatic events and the wide array of symptom combinations leading to PTSD diagnosis contribute substantial heterogeneity to studies of the disorder. Genomic and complimentary-omic investigations have rapidly increased our understanding of the heritable risk for PTSD. In this review, we emphasize the contributions of genome-wide association, epigenome-wide association, transcriptomic, and neuroimaging studies to our understanding of PTSD etiology. We also discuss the shared risk between PTSD and other complex traits derived from studies of causal inference, co-expression, and brain morphological similarities. The investigations completed so far converge on stark contrasts in PTSD risk between sexes, partially attributed to sex-specific prevalence of traumatic experiences with high conditional risk of PTSD. To further understand PTSD biology, future studies should focus on detecting risk for PTSD while accounting for substantial cohort-level heterogeneity (e.g. civilian v. combat-exposed PTSD cases or PTSD risk among cases exposed to specific traumas), expanding ancestral diversity among study cohorts, and remaining cognizant of how these data influence social stigma associated with certain traumatic events among underrepresented minorities and/or high-risk populations.
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