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ArticleNeurobiology of stress2021

From genetics to systems biology of stress-related mental disorders.

Shareefa Dalvie, Chris Chatzinakos, Obada Al Zoubi, Foivos Georgiadis, PGC-PTSD Systems Biology workgroup, Lee Lancashire, Nikolaos P Daskalakis

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Article in Neurobiology of stress, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Childhood adversity and trajectories of health and quality of life in Australian children and adolescents: a latent class analysis.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026
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  7. Post-traumatic stress disorder: evolving conceptualization and evidence, and future research directions.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Shareefa DalvieSouth African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Chris ChatzinakosDepartment of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, USA.
Obada Al ZoubiDepartment of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, USA.
Foivos GeorgiadisDepartment of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, USA.
PGC-PTSD Systems Biology workgroup
Lee LancashireStanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA.
Nikolaos P DaskalakisDepartment of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, USA.
Broad Institute · USSouth African Medical Research Council · ZA

Funding

Psychiatric Genomics Consortium for PTSDR01MH106595 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KARESTAN C KOENEN, Caroline M Nievergelt · 2016 to 2026
$8.4M
Site 3/3, Understanding PTSD through Postmortem Targeted Brain MultiomicsR01MH117292 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI Nikolaos Daskalakis, KERRY J. RESSLER · 2018 to 2026
$5.0M
Understanding the transgenerational epigenetic effect of maternal psychosocial trauma exposure on infants via lncRNA-sequencingR01HD102974 · NICHD · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI KLENGEL, TORSTEN, KOEN , NASTASSJA · 2020 to 2024
$2.9M
4/7 Psychiatric Genomics Consortium: Advancing Discovery and ImpactR01MH124847 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI NIEVERGELT, CAROLINE M, SEBAT, JONATHAN · 2021 to 2025
$2.1M
Integrating neuroimaging and brain gene expression for functional characterization of psychiatric GWASR21MH121909 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI DASKALAKIS, NIKOLAOS · 2020 to 2020
$451k
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD102974NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH106595NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH117292NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH124847NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH121909
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many individuals will be exposed to some form of traumatic stress in their lifetime which, in turn, increases the likelihood of developing stress-related disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder (MDD) and anxiety disorders (ANX). The development of these disorders is also influenced by genetics and have heritability estimates ranging between ∼30 and 70%. In this review, we provide an overview of the findings of genome-wide association studies for PTSD, depression and ANX, and we observe a clear genetic overlap between these three diagnostic categories. We go on to highlight the results from transcriptomic and epigenomic studies, and, given the multifactorial nature of stress-related disorders, we provide an overview of the gene-environment studies that have been conducted to date. Finally, we discuss systems biology approaches that are now seeing wider utility in determining a more holistic view of these complex disorders.

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EpigenomicsGeneticsStress disordersSystems biologyTranscriptomeTraumatic

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PMID34584908
PMCPMC8456113
OpenAlexW3199540136

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