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Childhood adversity increases methylation in the GRIN2B gene
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- Engdahl, Elin (author)
- Karolinska Inst, Inst Environm Med IMM, Unit Integrat Toxicol, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Alavian-Ghavanini, Ali (author)
- Karolinska Inst, Swetox, Unit Toxicol Sci, Södertälje, Sweden
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- Forsell, Yvonne (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Lavebratt, Catharina (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Rüegg, Joëlle (author)
- Karolinska Institutet,Uppsala universitet,Miljötoxikologi
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- American Chemical Society (ACS), 2021
- 2021
- English.
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In: Journal of Psychiatric Research. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 0022-3956 .- 1879-1379. ; 132, s. 38-43
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Abstract
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- Childhood adversity is an early life stressor associated with increased risk of several psychiatric disorders such as depression. Epigenetic changes, primarily DNA methylation, can be affected by early life stress, which in turn might contribute to altered disease susceptibility later in life. One plausible biomarker of early life stress is methylation of the ionotropic glutamate receptor NMDA type subunit 2B (GRIN2B) gene, which has been previously shown to be epigenetically affected by prenatal environmental stressors. Here, we set out to investigate if stress-inducing adversity during childhood is associated with changes in methylation of GRIN2B in adulthood. We studied 186 individuals from a Swedish naturalistic population-based cohort who had provided saliva samples (DNA) as well as information regarding both childhood adversity (CA) and depressive symptoms (dep) (nCA,dep = 41, nCA,no-dep = 56, nno-CA,dep = 40, Nno-CA,no-dep = 49). Methylation at four CpG sites in a regulatory region of GRIN2B was analysed using bisulfite pyrosequencing. Associations for methylation status to childhood adversity and to depression status were investigated using linear regression models. Our study shows that childhood adversity is associated with increased methylation levels of GRIN2B in adulthood, for three of the measured CpGs (p = 0.007, 0.006 and 5 × 10−14). This indicates that GRIN2B methylation is susceptible to early life stress, and that methylation at this gene is persistent over time. No association was found between GRIN2B methylation and depression status. Yet, this does not rule out a role for alterations in GRIN2B methylation for other neuropsychological outcomes not studied here.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Psykiatri (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Psychiatry (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- GRIN2B
- DNA methylation
- Childhood adversity
- Early life stress
- Depression
- Epigenetics
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