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Genetic risk mechanisms of posttraumatic stress disorder in the human brain.
Journal of neuroscience research - 1 Jan 2018
Bharadwaj Rahul A, Jaffe Andrew E, Chen Qiang, Deep-Soboslay Amy, Goldman Aaron L, Mighdoll Michelle I, Cotoia John A, Brandtjen Anna C, Shin JooHeon, Hyde Thomas M, Mattay Venkata S, Weinberger Daniel R, Kleinman Joel E
Abstract excerpt
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) follows exposure to a traumatic event in susceptible individuals. Recently, genome-wide association studies have identified a number of genetic sequence variants that are associated with the risk of developing PTSD. To follow up on identifying the molecular mechanisms of these risk variants, we performed genotype to RNA sequencing-derived quantitative expression (whole gene,...
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