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ArticleJournal of psychiatry and brain science2025

Dysregulated Gene Expression: A Candidate Mechanism for Anxiety Disorders.

Dimitri Traenkner, Mary Steinmann

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2 authors.

Dimitri TraenknerDepartment of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
Mary SteinmannDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA.

Funding

Regulatory Elements Controlling Anxiety StatesR21MH126241 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI TRAENKNER, DIMITRI · 2022 to 2023
$423k
NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH126241
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent and debilitating mental illnesses worldwide. While environmental factors such as early-life stress contribute to their etiology, genetics also plays a crucial role, with a family history increasing susceptibility. Unlike Mendelian traits driven by single gene variants, anxiety disorders appear to follow polygenic inheritance in which multiple genetic variants collectively shape risk. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous loci linked to anxiety, yet individual variants have small effect sizes and leave much of the heritability unexplained. A clue to resolving this conundrum may lie in the fact that most GWAS hits reside in non-coding regions with characteristics of gene-regulatory elements. This observation raises the possibility that altered expression of otherwise normal genes contributes to susceptibility. Gene-regulatory elements control when and where genes are expressed. Disruption of these elements may contribute to anxiety disorders by subtly altering neuronal signaling and stress-response pathways. Unraveling the role of gene regulation in anxiety disorders presents a promising avenue for improved diagnosis and targeted treatments. This review explores recent advances in the field and their potential for understanding the genetic architecture of anxiety disorders.

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anxiety disorderscis-regulatory elementscomorbiditydysregulated gene expressionepigeneticsgene regulationGenome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)heritabilityneurobiological mechanismspolygenic traits

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PMID40689083
PMCPMC12276880

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