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Association of <emph type="ital">FKBP5</emph> Polymorphisms and Childhood Abuse With Risk of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Adults

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Binder, Elisabeth B.·2008·JAMA

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CONTEXT: In addition to trauma exposure, other factors contribute to risk for development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adulthood. Both genetic and environmental factors are contributory, with child abuse providing significant risk liability. OBJECTIVE: To increase understanding of genetic and environmental risk factors as well as their interaction in the development of PTSD by gene x environment interactions of child abuse, level of non-child abuse trauma exposure, and genetic polymorphisms at the stress-related gene FKBP5. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: A cross-sectional study examining genetic and psychological risk factors in 900 nonpsychiatric clinic patients (762 included for all genotype studies) with significant levels of childhood abuse as well as non-child abuse trauma using a verbally presented survey combined with single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping. Participants were primarily urban, low-income, black (>95%) men and women seeking care in the general medical care and obstetrics-gynecology clinics of an urban public hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, between 2005 and 2007. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Severity of adult PTSD symptomatology, measured with the modified PTSD Symptom Scale, non-child abuse (primarily adult) trauma exposure and child abuse measured using the traumatic events inventory and 8 SNPs spanning the FKBP5 locus. RESULTS: Level of child abuse and non-child abuse trauma each separately predicted level of adult PTSD symptomatology (mean [SD], PTSD Symptom Scale for no child abuse, 8.03 [10.48] vs > or =2 types of abuse, 20.93 [14.32]; and for no non-child abuse trauma, 3.58 [6.27] vs > or =4 types, 16.74 [12.90]; P < .001). Although FKBP5 SNPs did not directly predict PTSD symptom outcome or interact with level of non-child abuse trauma to predict PTSD symptom severity, 4 SNPs in the FKBP5 locus significantly interacted (rs9296158, rs3800373, rs1360780, and rs9470080; minimum P = .0004) with the severity of child abuse to predict level of adult PTSD symptoms after correcting for multiple testing. This gene x environment interaction remained significant when controlling for depression severity scores, age, sex, levels of non-child abuse trauma exposure, and genetic ancestry. This genetic interaction was also paralleled by FKBP5 genotype-dependent and PTSD-dependent effects on glucocorticoid receptor sensitivity, measured by the dexamethasone suppression test. CONCLUSIONS: Four SNPs of the FKBP5 gene interacted with severity of child abuse as a predictor of adult PTSD symptoms. There were no main effects of the SNPs on PTSD symptoms and no significant genetic interactions with level of non-child abuse trauma as predictor of adult PTSD symptoms, suggesting a potential gene-childhood environment interaction for adult PTSD.

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  • SNPs in the FKBP5 gene associated with higher FKBP5-mRNA induction upon cortisol release (rs1360780, rs9296158, rs3800373, and rs9470080) are also associated with increased PTSD symptom severity in those with high levels of child abuse.

    “Importantly, SNPs in the FKBP5 gene that are associated with higher FKBP5-mRNA induction upon cortisol release (rs1360780, rs9296158, rs3800373, and rs9470080) are also associated with increased PTSD symptom severity in those with high levels of child abuse (Binder et al, 2008).”

    From Inflammation in Fear- and Anxiety-Based Disorders: PTSD, GAD, and Beyond (2017) · cites this paper as Binder et al, 2008

    The Comment and ‘Interaction of FKBP5 Polymorphisms With Child Abuse to Predict PTSD Symptoms’ sections report that all four SNPs interacted with child abuse to predict adult PTSD symptom severity. The Comment distinguishes rs1360780 and rs3800373, which had been linked to higher FKBP5 levels or stronger cortisol-induced mRNA expression, from rs9296158 and rs9470080, which were in strong linkage disequilibrium with them. It does not establish the claimed mRNA-induction association separately for all four SNPs. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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  • FKBP5 single nucleotide polymorphisms interact with early trauma to predict both PTSD and major depression.

    “FKBP5 single nucleotide polymorphisms have additionally been shown to interact with early trauma to predict both PTSD and major depression (36,37), possibly through involvement of allelespecific, environmentally dependent changes in methylation of specific cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) sites (38).”

    From Holocaust Exposure Induced Intergenerational Effects on FKBP5 Methylation (2016) · cites this paper as [36]

    The COMMENT reports that FKBP5 SNPs interacted with child abuse to predict adult PTSD symptoms. The “FKBP5 and Child Abuse Interaction” section reports no significant genotype-by-child-abuse interaction for depression outcome after correction for multiple testing. This source therefore supports the PTSD part, but not the claim about major depression. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  • Specific single-nucleotide polymorphisms of the FKBP5 gene interacting with ELS/CT predict the level of adult PTSD symptoms.

    “As first shown by Binder et al. (385), specific single-nucleotide poly-morphisms (SNPs) of the FKBP5 gene interacting with ELS/CT predict the level of adult PTSD symptoms.”
  • Some alleles of these FKBP5-SNPs are associated with enhanced glucocorticoid sensitivity, whereas other alleles are associated with GR resistance in individuals with PTSD.

    “Interestingly, some alleles of these FKBP5-SNPs are associated with enhanced glucocorticoid sensitivity, whereas other alleles of these SNPs are associated with GR resistance in individuals with PTSD (Binder et al, 2008).”

    From Inflammation in Fear- and Anxiety-Based Disorders: PTSD, GAD, and Beyond (2017) · cites this paper as Binder et al, 2008

  • Binder et al.'s interaction effects remained significant after controlling for depressive symptoms, age, sex, non-child abuse trauma, and genetic ancestry.

    “Moreover, these interaction effects remained significant even after controlling for potential confounds (i.e., depressive symptoms, age, sex, non-child abuse trauma, genetic ancestry).”

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Authors
Binder, E. B.
Affiliations
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Binder, Elisabeth B.
Venue
JAMA
Published
2008-03-19
Volume
299
Issue
11
Pages
1291
ISSN
  • 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
  • 0098-7484
OpenAlex
W2166401337
Cited by
1,362
References
96
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FWCI
96.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • JAMA (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (UL1TR000454)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH042088, P50MH058922, MH58922, MH 071537, MH069884, R01MH071537, MH42088, R56MH071537, K01MH069884)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA015766, K02DA015766)
  • National Center for Research Resources (M01RR000039)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Keywords
post-traumatic stress disorder, childhood abuse, FKBP5, gene-environment interaction, single nucleotide polymorphisms, trauma exposure, PTSD symptom severity, genetic risk factors, stress-related genes, rs1360780
MeSH terms
Tacrolimus Binding Protein 5, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Child, Child Abuse, Cross-Sectional Studies, Dexamethasone, Female, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Male, Middle Aged, Poverty, Receptors, Glucocorticoid, Regression Analysis, Risk Factors, Severity of Illness Index, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Urban Population, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Tacrolimus Binding Proteins

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