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Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain
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Abstract
Oxytocin is a neuropeptide involved in animal and human reproductive and social behavior. Three oxytocin signaling genes have been frequently implicated in human social behavior: OXT (structural gene for oxytocin), OXTR (oxytocin receptor), and CD38 (oxytocin secretion). Here, we characterized the distribution of OXT , OXTR , and CD38 mRNA across the human brain by creating voxel-by-voxel volumetric expression maps, and identified putative gene pathway interactions by comparing gene expression patterns across 20,737 genes. Expression of the three selected oxytocin pathway genes was enriched in subcortical and olfactory regions and there was high co-expression with several dopaminergic and muscarinic acetylcholine genes, reflecting an anatomical basis for critical gene pathway interactions. fMRI meta-analysis revealed that the oxytocin pathway gene maps correspond with the processing of anticipatory, appetitive, and aversive cognitive states. The oxytocin signaling system may interact with dopaminergic and muscarinic acetylcholine signaling to modulate cognitive state processes involved in complex human behaviors.
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This study mapped mRNA expression of oxytocin pathway genes (OXT, OXTR, CD38) across the human brain and compared their spatial patterns with all 20,737 protein-coding genes, dopaminergic/cholinergic gene sets, and fMRI-derived cognitive state maps. It reports that OXTR and CD38 are enriched in subcortical/olfactory regions, co-express with dopaminergic and muscarinic acetylcholine genes, and correspond to anticipatory, appetitive, and aversive cognitive states.
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- OXTR and CD38 expression was enriched in subcortical and olfactory regions and lower in cerebellum. OXTR was significantly higher than average in olfactory bulbs (p = 0.048, d = 2.1); CD38 was higher in caudate (p = 0.004, d = 4.1), pallidum (p = 0.004, d = 4.6), olfactory bulbs (p = 0.01, d = 3.4), putamen (p = 0.02, d = 2.7), thalamus (p = 0.03, d = 2.1), and anterior cingulate (p = 0.03, d = 2). No brain regions showed significantly higher OXT expression after FDR correction.
- OXTR and CD38 clustered with DRD2, DRD5, COMT, CHRM4, and CHRM5. A WGCNA module containing OXTR and CD38 (28 genes total) was enriched for waist-hip ratio adjusted for BMI and smoking (p = 1.13 × 10−2), feeding behavior (p = 5.83 × 10−3), cognition (p = 7.44 × 10−3), and behavioral response to stimuli (p = 1.05 × 10−2). The OXTR–CD38 association was significant (p < 0.0001) and in the top 5% of correlations among all 20,737 protein-coding genes.
- NeuroSynth reverse inference across 14,371 fMRI studies found OXTR expression most correlated with “sexual,” “motivation,” “incentive,” and “anxiety” maps, ranking in the top 0.5% of all 20,737 gene maps (p < 0.001); “taste,” “stress,” “reward,” “monetary,” “fear,” and “emotional” maps were within the top 2.5% (p < 0.001). OXTR (p = 0.0002) and CD38 (p = 0.006) had greater expression in social versus non-social brain regions; OXT did not (p = 0.14).
- OXTR and CD38 showed high donor-to-donor reproducibility, with differential stability values in the top decile of all 20,737 genes and significant donor-to-donor associations (p < 0.0001). GTEx validation correlated with Allen data for OXTR (rs = 0.81, p = 0.01) and CD38 (rs = 0.67, p = 0.04), but not OXT (rs = 0.22, p = 0.54).
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- Post-mortem mRNA data came from the Allen Human Brain Atlas: six donor brains (three Caucasian males, one Hispanic female, two African-American males; mean age 42.5 ± 11.2 years; mean post-mortem interval 22.3 ± 4.5 hours), sampled at 363–946 locations per brain. Analyses used left-hemisphere samples, 20,737 protein-coding genes, MNI152 nonlinear registration, and 54 AAL atlas regions; voxel-by-voxel maps were created by Delaunay triangulation and linear interpolation.
- Independent validation used GTEx data from 10 brain regions (mean sample size 131.7, range 88–173). Analyses included Spearman correlations, complete-linkage clustering, one-sample t-tests with FDR correction across 54 tests, FUMA hypergeometric enrichment, WGCNA (soft-thresholding power 10, scale-free topology R² = 0.828), and NeuroSynth reverse inference with Spearman correlation and 5,000 permutations via PALM.
- Cognitive state decoding used NeuroSynth release 0.7, extracting text and neuroimaging data from 14,371 fMRI studies; association Z maps were correlated with all 20,737 gene expression maps and ranked.
Limitations
- Stated: the human post-mortem sample was small and variable in age and ethnicity, with possible variability from brain size and morphology; only one female donor limited comprehensive sex-difference analysis; GTEx has fewer brain sampling sites than Allen; OXT expression was less stable donor-to-donor and not significantly related to GTEx, limiting generalizability for OXT; the study cannot show that increased OXTR transcript expression corresponds to receptor activation during specific cognitive states; several gene–psychiatric disorder links are single-report associations requiring replication.
- Evident from the design: the work is correlational and cross-sectional, using post-mortem mRNA maps and meta-analytic fMRI associations, so it cannot establish causal or temporal relationships between oxytocin pathway gene expression, dopaminergic/cholinergic signaling, and cognitive states.
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“fMRI meta-analysis revealed that the oxytocin pathway gene maps correspond with the processing of anticipatory, appetitive, and aversive cognitive states.”
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“The results from a large-scale fMRI meta-analysis suggest that oxytocin pathway gene expression maps correspond with the processing of anticipatory, appetitive, and aversive cognitive states.”
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“Decoding cognitive states meta-analytically from voxel-by-voxel mRNA maps (Fig. 6) via quantitative reverse inference revealed that OXTR, CD38, and OXT mRNA expression maps were most highly correlated with functional imaging maps that can be broadly categorized as anticipatory, appetitive, and aversive”
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“Expression of the three selected oxytocin pathway genes was enriched in subcortical and olfactory regions”
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“Expression of critical oxytocin pathway genes are enriched in subcortical and olfactory regions”
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“mRNA reflecting specific genes in the oxytocin pathway are highly expressed in subcortical and temporal brain structures, along with the olfactory region.”
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“there was high co-expression with several dopaminergic and muscarinic acetylcholine genes”
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“OXTR and CD38 showed considerable co-expression with DRD2, DRD5, COMT, CHRM4, and CHRM5 genes”
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“Compared to average expression across the brain, statistically significant higher expression of OXTR mRNA levels was observed in the olfactory bulbs (p = 0.048, d = 2.1; Supplementary Data 1).”
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“In both datasets, OXTR, CD38, DRD2, and CHRM4 clustered together (Supplementary Fig. 8).”
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“This OXTR/CD38 module was also enriched in brain and breast tissue (Bonferroni corrected p-value < 0.05; Fig. 4b).”
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“This analysis identified a co-expression module containing both OXTR and CD38, among 28 genes in total (Fig. 4a, Supplementary Data 1; Supplementary Fig. 9).”
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“There were statistically significant relationships between the expression of the genes in this cluster (all FDR adjusted p-values < 0.05).”
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“This OXTR/CD38 module was also enriched in genesets reported in the Molecular Signatures Database34 that are associated with several behavioral and cognitive state processes including feeding behavior (p = 5.83 × 10−3), cognition (p = 7.44 × 10−3), and behavioral response to stimuli (p = 1.05 × 10−2).”
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- Not checked yetcites [34] Liberzon, A. et al. Molecular signatures database (MSigDB) 3.0. Bioinformatics 27, 1739–1740 (2011). source
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“There were no brain regions with significantly higher than average OXT expression after FDR correction (54 tests; Supplementary Fig. 2).”
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“GLUD1 and GLUD2, which are involved in energy homeostasis36,37.”
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- Not checked yetcites [36] Karaca, M. et al. GDH-dependent glutamate oxidation in the brain dictates peripheral energy substrate distribution. Cell Rep. 13, 365–375 (2015). source
- Supportedcites [37] Shashidharan, P. & Plaitakis, A. The discovery of human of GLUD2 glutamate dehydrogenase and its implications for cell function in health and disease. Neurochem. Res. 39, 460–470 (2014). source
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“This is also congruous with reported deficits in dopaminergic signaling in schizophrenia60 and autism61.”
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- Supportedcites [61] Hettinger, J. A. et al. DRD2 and PPP1R1B (DARPP-32) polymorphisms independently confer increased risk for autism spectrum disorders and additively predict affected status in male-only affected sib-pair families. Behav. Brain Funct. 8, 19 (2012). source
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“and to assist with the release of oxytocin63”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Discussion
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- Supportedcites [63] Jankowski, M. et al. Oxytocin and its receptors are synthesized in the rat vasculature. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 97, 6207–6211 (2000). source
The Discussion proposes that, within blood vessels, parasympathetic acetylcholine may act on muscarinic cholinergic receptors to activate oxytocin release. The claim's tentative wording matches this proposed mechanism, which the paper says has not been studied directly. (LLM, conf=0.91)
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“There was significantly lower OXTR expression in the cerebral crus II (p = 0.01, d = 4), cerebellum 7b (p = 0.01, d = 3.6), and cerebellum 8 (p = 0.01, d = 4.3; Fig. 1a).”
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“Subcortical structures had higher than average expression of OXTR, associated with Cohen’s d values >1, but these did not reach FDR corrected (54 tests) thresholds of statistical significance (Pallidum: p = 0.1, d = 1.7; Caudate: p = 0.12, d = 1.5; Putamen: p = 0.13, d = 1.3; Thalamus, p = 0.18, d = 1.1).”
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“There was lower CD38 expression in the cerebral crus II (p = 0.045, d = 1.8), cerebellum 7b (p = 0.03, d = 2.1), and cerebellum 8 (p = 0.03, d = 1.9).”
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“CD38 gene expression was statistically significantly higher than average in the caudate (p = 0.004, d = 4.1), pallidum (p = 0.004, d = 4.6), olfactory bulbs (p = 0.01, d = 3.4), putamen (p = 0.02, d = 2.7), thalamus (p = 0.03, d = 2.1), and cingulate anterior (p = 0.03, d = 2; Fig. 1b).”
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“Hierarchical clustering revealed that oxytocin pathway genes (OXTR, CD38) cluster with some elements of the dopaminergic (DRD2, DRD5, and COMT) and cholinergic (CHRM4, CHRM5) systems, but not all, indicating the relationship between oxytocin pathway genes and dopaminergic/cholinergic gene sets were not globally strong.”
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“the top ten most positive correlations with CD38 included NTSR2 (rs = 0.82), C12orf39 (Spexin; rs = 0.81), and GLUD1 (rs = 0.78).”
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“The association between OXTR and CD38 was statistically significant (p < 0.0001) and among the top 5% of correlations compared to all 20,737 protein coding genes.”
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“Among the top ten most positive mRNA map correlations for OXTR were Neurotensin Receptor 2 (NTSR2; rs = 0.78), Glutamate dehydrogenase 2 (GLUD2; rs = 0.78), and Glutamate dehydrogenase 1 (GLUD1; rs = 0.77)”
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“Additionally, the gene with the 6th strongest association with CD38 was PSAT1 (rs = 0.79), whose disruption has been linked to schizophrenia39.”
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“There was significantly higher expression in the hypothalamic structures compared to the thalamic structures for OXTR (p < 0.001), CD38 (p = 0.002) and OXT (p < 0.001).”
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“Additionally, OXTR (p = 0.0002; Fig. 7c) and CD38 (p = 0.006; Fig. 7d), had significantly greater mRNA expression in brain regions associated with social behavior compared to brain regions associated with non-social cognitive states (Supplementary Data 1).”
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“The “taste”, “stress”, “reward”, “monetary”, “fear”, and “emotional” cognitive state maps were within the top 2.5% of all associations with OXTR expression and also statistically significant (p < 0.001; Fig. 7b; Supplementary Table 2).”
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“Notably, the OXTR map’s relationship with the cognitive state maps of “sexual”, “motivation”, “incentive”, and “anxiety” were all ranked among the top 0.5% strongest associations out of 20,737 genes and were statistically significant (p < 0.001; Fig. 7b; Supplementary Table 2)”
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“Specifically, CD38 is involved in oxytocin secretion via Ca2+ release15”
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Jin, D. et al. CD38 is critical for social behaviour by regulating oxytocin secretion. Nature 446, 41–45 (2007). source
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“The interactions with the oxytocin system extend beyond the opioid pathway, including the dopaminergic17,18 and muscarinic acetylcholine12,19 circuits, with possible implications for social behavior and psychiatric disorders.”
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- Not checked yetcites [17] Love, T. M. Oxytocin, motivation and the role of dopamine. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 119, 49–60 (2014). source
- Not checked yetcites [18] Ebstein, R. P., Israel, S., Chew, S. H., Zhong, S. & Knafo, A. Genetics of human social behavior. Neuron 65, 831–844 (2010). source
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“While OXTR mRNA localization in the rodent brain is well-described11, its anatomical distribution across the human brain is poorly understood, as investigations have historically tended to sample very few brain regions12.”
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- Not checked yetcites [11] Insel, T. R. & Shapiro, L. E. Oxytocin receptor distribution reflects social organization in monogamous and polygamous voles. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 89, 5981–5985 (1992). source
- Not checked yetcites [12] Loup, F., Tribollet, E., Dubois-Dauphin, M. & Dreifuss, J. Localization of high-affinity binding sites for oxytocin and vasopressin in the human brain. An autoradiographic study. Brain Res 555, 220–232 (1991). source
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“oxytocin-neurophysin I (OXT) encodes the oxytocin prepropeptide containing the nonapeptide oxytocin and the carrier protein neurophysin-I16.”
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- Not checked yetcites [16] Sausville, E., Carney, D. & Battey, J. The human vasopressin gene is linked to the oxytocin gene and is selectively expressed in a cultured lung cancer cell line. J. Biol. Chem. 260, 10236–10241 (1985). source
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“OXT mRNA has been shown to be highly expressed in human paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, the lateral hypothalamic area, and the supraoptic nucleus, and there is evidence of co-expression with OXTR mRNA and the μ and κ types opioid receptor mRNA13”
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“While more recent work has exclusively examined whole-brain distribution of OXTR genes against a limited set of genes13 and overexpression in broad functional brain networks (e.g., limbic network)14, researchers have yet to explore OXTR’s associations with all protein-coding genes or with gene expression patterns associated with specific cognitive states.”
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- Not checked yetcites [14] Anderson, K. M. et al. Gene expression links functional networks across cortex and striatum. Nat. Commun. 9, 1428 (2018). source
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“suggesting a correspondence between the spatial distribution of OXTR mRNA, its functional neuroanatomy, and behavioral relevance.”
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“the muscarinic acetylcholine M4 receptor (CHRM4) has been associated with schizophrenia22 and implicated in cognitive flexibility23 and dopamine release24.”
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- Not checked yetcites [22] Scarr, E., Sundram, S., Keriakous, D. & Dean, B. Altered hippocampal muscarinic M4, but not M1, receptor expression from subjects with schizophrenia. Biol. Psychiatry 61, 1161–1170 (2007). source
- Not checked yetcites [23] Okada, K. et al. Enhanced flexibility of place discrimination learning by targeting striatal cholinergic interneurons. Nat. Commun. 5, 3778 (2014). source
- Not checked yetcites [24] Grilli, M. et al. Release-enhancing pre-synaptic muscarinic and nicotinic receptors co-exist and interact on dopaminergic nerve endings of rat nucleus accumbens. J. Neurochem. 105, 2205–2213 (2008). source
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“For instance, commonly observed increases in medial and lateral frontal region activity during emotion and pain processing seem to be better explained by more general sustained attention processes27.”
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- Not checked yetcites [27] Yarkoni, T., Poldrack, R. A., Nichols, T. E., Van Essen, D. C. & Wager, T. D. Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data. Nat. Methods 8, 665 (2011). source
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“the dopamine D2-receptor subtype (DRD2), has been implicated in various putative intermediate phenotypes in psychiatric illness, including motivational processing20 and pair bonding in animal models21.”
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- Not checked yetcites [20] Noble, E. P. D2 dopamine receptor gene in psychiatric and neurologic disorders and its phenotypes. Am. J. Med. Genet. B Neuropsychiatr. Genet. 116, 103–125 (2003). source
- Not checked yetcites [21] Aragona, B. J. et al. Nucleus accumbens dopamine differentially mediates the formation and maintenance of monogamous pair bonds. Nat. Neurosci. 9, 133–139 (2006). source
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“Finally, oxytocin can also bind to AVPR1A receptors25, which have also been linked to social functioning26.”
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- Not checked yetcites [25] Cho, M. M., DeVries, A. C., Williams, J. R. & Carter, C. S. The effects of oxytocin and vasopressin on partner preferences in male and female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). Behav. Neurosci. 113, 1071–1079 (1999). source
- Not checked yetcites [26] Bielsky, I. F., Hu, S.-B., Szegda, K. L., Westphal, H. & Young, L. J. Profound impairment in social recognition and reduction in anxiety-like behavior in vasopressin V1a receptor knockout mice. Neuropsychopharmacology 29, 483 (2004). source
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“While brain regions with high oxytocin pathway gene expression in humans have been identified12,13, inference of specific cognitive states from the activity of single brain regions is elusive.”
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- Not checked yetcites [12] Loup, F., Tribollet, E., Dubois-Dauphin, M. & Dreifuss, J. Localization of high-affinity binding sites for oxytocin and vasopressin in the human brain. An autoradiographic study. Brain Res 555, 220–232 (1991). source
- Not checked yetcites [13] Dal Monte, O. et al. Oxytocin under opioid antagonism leads to supralinear enhancement of social attention. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 114, 5247–5252 (2017). source
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“The NeuroSynth framework27 has extracted text and neuroimaging data from 14,371 fMRI studies (release 0.7).”
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“We found that both OXTR and CD38 had differential stability values in the top decile of all 20,737 protein coding genes in the dataset (Fig. 5a), indicating that gene expression patterning is reproducible, regardless of individual differences, such as ethnicity and sex.”
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“NTSR2, which has been found to regulate ethanol consumption in mice35”
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- Not checked yetcites [35] Lee, M. R., Hinton, D. J., Unal, S. S., Richelson, E. & Choi, D. S. Increased ethanol consumption and preference in mice lacking neurotensin receptor type 2. Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res. 35, 99–107 (2011). source
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“OXT expression did not demonstrate strong whole-brain correspondence with OXTR and CD38 expression, which was likely due to OXT transcripts only showing a strong presence in oxytocin producing cells within hypothalamic regions.”
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“OXTR and CD38 showed considerable co-expression with DRD2, DRD5, COMT, CHRM4, and CHRM5 genes, providing evidence for putative interactions between dopaminergic and muscarinic acetylcholine systems with oxytocin pathway signaling.”
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“whose disruption has been linked to schizophrenia39.”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Results > Voxel-by-voxel gene expression associations
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- Not checked yetcites [39] Ozeki, Y. et al. A novel balanced chromosomal translocation found in subjects with schizophrenia and schizotypal personality disorder: altered l-serine level associated with disruption of PSAT1 gene expression. Neurosci. Res. 69, 154–160 (2011). source
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“C12orf39 (Spexin), with the latter associated with weight regulation38.”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Walewski, J. L. et al. Spexin is a novel human peptide that reduces adipocyte uptake of long chain fatty acids and causes weight loss in rodents with diet-induced obesity. Obesity 22, 1643–1652 (2014). source
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“Notably, research indicates that intranasal oxytocin administration improves appetite regulation in humans47,48.”
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“Emerging evidence also points to the oxytocin system’s role in energy metabolism, with relevance for metabolic functions5.”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Quintana, D. S., Dieset, I., Elvsåshagen, T., Westlye, L. T. & Andreassen, O. A. Oxytocin system dysfunction as a common mechanism underlying metabolic syndrome and psychiatric symptoms in schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. Front. Neuroendocrinol. 45, 1-–10 (2017). source
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“Research on humans has shown beneficial effects of intranasal oxytocin on performance on tests assessing social cognition2 and gaze to the eye region3.”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [2] Domes, G., Heinrichs, M., Michel, A., Berger, C. & Herpertz, S. C. Oxytocin improves “mind-reading” in humans. Biol. Psychiatry 61, 731–733 (2007). source
- Not checked yetcites [3] Guastella, A. J., Mitchell, P. B. & Dadds, M. R. Oxytocin increases gaze to the eye region of human faces. Biol. Psychiatry 63, 3–5 (2008). source
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“single nucleotide polymorphisms in oxytocin pathway genes have been associated with social behavior and psychiatric disorders4.”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [4] Feldman, R., Monakhov, M., Pratt, M. & Ebstein, R. P. Oxytocin pathway genes: evolutionary ancient system impacting on human affiliation, sociality, and psychopathology. Biol. Psychiatry 79, 174–184 (2016). source
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“PAK7 and GABRD which have been associated with schizophrenia49–52.”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [49] Morris, D. W. et al. An inherited duplication at the gene p21 Protein-Activated Kinase 7 (PAK7) is a risk factor for psychosis. Hum. Mol. Genet. 23, 3316–3326 (2014). source
- Not checked yetcites [50] Budel, S. et al. Genetic variants of Nogo-66 receptor with possible association to schizophrenia block myelin inhibition of axon growth. J. Neurosci. 28, 13161–13172 (2008). source
- Not checked yetcites [51] Consortium, I. S. Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications increase risk of schizophrenia. Nature 455, 237 (2008). source
- Not checked yetcites [52] Vawter, M. P. et al. Microarray analysis of gene expression in the prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia: a preliminary study. Schizophr. Res. 58, 11–20 (2002). source
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“In these animals, oxytocin receptors are located in regions that are crucial for social behavior and the processing of social cues11.”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [11] Insel, T. R. & Shapiro, L. E. Oxytocin receptor distribution reflects social organization in monogamous and polygamous voles. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 89, 5981–5985 (1992). source
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“While these studies suggest intriguing links between specific genes and psychiatric illnesses, it is important to note that these are largely single report associations that require replication in independent samples.”
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“PSAT1, a gene that has been associated with schizophrenia39.”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [39] Ozeki, Y. et al. A novel balanced chromosomal translocation found in subjects with schizophrenia and schizotypal personality disorder: altered l-serine level associated with disruption of PSAT1 gene expression. Neurosci. Res. 69, 154–160 (2011). source
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“reported deficits in dopaminergic signaling in schizophrenia60”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [60] Stopper, C. M. & Floresco, S. B. Dopaminergic circuitry and risk/reward decision making: implications for schizophrenia. Schizophr. Bull. 41, 9–14 (2015). source
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“the muscarinic acetylcholine system is thought to contribute to the cognitive dysfunction observed in schizophrenia64”
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- Not checked yetcites [64] Carruthers, S. P., Gurvich, C. T. & Rossell, S. L. The muscarinic system, cognition and schizophrenia. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 55, 393–402 (2015). source
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“The muscarinic acetylcholine system may also work with the oxytocin system to boost attention62”
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- Not checked yetcites [62] Demeter, E. & Sarter, M. Leveraging the cortical cholinergic system to enhance attention. Neuropharmacology 64, 294–304 (2013). source
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“central D2 receptors modulate social functioning in prairie voles57”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [57] Gingrich, B., Liu, Y., Cascio, C., Wang, Z. & Insel, T. R. Dopamine D2 receptors in the nucleus accumbens are important for social attachment in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). Behav. Neurosci. 114, 173 (2000). source
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“The oxytocin and dopaminergic systems have been shown to work in concert to promote rodent maternal behaviors56”
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- Not checked yetcites [56] Pedersen, C. A., Caldwell, J. D., Walker, C., Ayers, G. & Mason, G. A. Oxytocin activates the postpartum onset of rat maternal behavior in the ventral tegmental and medial preoptic areas. Behav. Neurosci. 108, 1163 (1994). source
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“Increased mRNA in the human olfactory region may be vestigial, as olfaction is not as important for human conspecific identification compared to most other mammals due to species specialization”
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“These issues, along with individual differences in brain sizes and morphological features, may have introduced variability in sampling.”
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“intranasal oxytocin has been shown to improve olfactory detection performance in schizophrenia68”
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- Not checked yetcites [68] Lee, M. R. et al. Effects of adjunctive intranasal oxytocin on olfactory identification and clinical symptoms in schizophrenia: results from a randomized double blind placebo controlled pilot study. Schizophr. Res. 145, 110–115 (2013). source
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“the sample size was small and the donor group was variable in regards to age and ethnicity.”
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“high differential stability appears to be a hallmark of genes with considerable biological relevance40.”
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- Not checked yetcites [40] Hawrylycz, M. et al. Canonical genetic signatures of the adult human brain. Nat. Neurosci. 18, 1832 (2015). source
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“intranasal oxytocin is thought to enter the brain via the olfactory bulbs69”
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- Not checked yetcites [69] Quintana, D. S., Guastella, A. J., Westlye, L. T. & Andreassen, O. A. The promise and pitfalls of intranasally administering psychopharmacological agents for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Mol. Psychiatry 21, 29–38 (2016). source
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“The relatively small amount of measurement error for the mRNA probes is indicative of high precision and sufficient generalizability.”
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“Although this dataset offers less spatial resolution compared to the Allen dataset”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Methods > Independent sample validation
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“and that increased OXTR gene expression is associated with increased oxytocin binding”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [9] Keebaugh, A. C. & Young, L. J. Increasing oxytocin receptor expression in the nucleus accumbens of pre-pubertal female prairie voles enhances alloparental responsiveness and partner preference formation as adults. Horm. Behav. 60, 498–504 (2011). source
- Not checked yetcites [10] Keebaugh, A. C., Barrett, C. E., Laprairie, J. L., Jenkins, J. J. & Young, L. J. RNAi knockdown of oxytocin receptor in the nucleus accumbens inhibits social attachment and parental care in monogamous female prairie voles. Soc. Neurosci. 10, 561–570 (2015). source
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“our study may help facilitate efforts to better understand oxytocin treatment efficacy as it identifies targets for oxytocin receptor engagement, which can facilitate dose-ranging studies69,70.”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [69] Quintana, D. S., Guastella, A. J., Westlye, L. T. & Andreassen, O. A. The promise and pitfalls of intranasally administering psychopharmacological agents for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Mol. Psychiatry 21, 29–38 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [70] Insel, T. R. Translating oxytocin neuroscience to the clinic: a National Institute of Mental Health perspective. Biol. Psychiatry 79, 153–154 (2016). source
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- Rests on an assumption: Research has not yet demonstrated whether increased OXTR expression in humans is associated with activation of the receptor during specific cognitive states.
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“the data is derived from a larger dataset of donors (mean sample size for mRNA expression across brain regions = 131.7, range = 88 to 173).”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Methods > Independent sample validation
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“The collection of human data complied with relevant ethical regulations, with institutional review board approval obtained at each tissue bank and repository that provided tissue samples.”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Methods > Post-mortem brain samples
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“animal models demonstrating that OXTR expression levels directly modulate social behavior9,10”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [9] Keebaugh, A. C. & Young, L. J. Increasing oxytocin receptor expression in the nucleus accumbens of pre-pubertal female prairie voles enhances alloparental responsiveness and partner preference formation as adults. Horm. Behav. 60, 498–504 (2011). source
- Not checked yetcites [10] Keebaugh, A. C., Barrett, C. E., Laprairie, J. L., Jenkins, J. J. & Young, L. J. RNAi knockdown of oxytocin receptor in the nucleus accumbens inhibits social attachment and parental care in monogamous female prairie voles. Soc. Neurosci. 10, 561–570 (2015). source
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“informed consent was provided by each donor’s next-of-kin.”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Methods > Post-mortem brain samples
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The paper relies on this without support.
Co-expression of genes across brain regions reflects functional interaction between their signaling systems.
“reflecting an anatomical basis for critical gene pathway interactions”
“providing evidence for putative interactions between dopaminergic and muscarinic acetylcholine systems with oxytocin pathway signaling.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The mRNA co-expression of dopaminergic, muscarinic acetylcholine, and other systems with the oxytocin system is not well characterized.
“However, the mRNA co-expression of these systems, and potentially others, with the oxytocin system is not well characterized.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The six donor brains in the Allen Human Brain Atlas are representative of the general human brain for gene expression mapping.
“The full dataset of protein coding genes (n = 20,737) from six donor brains were collected from the Allen Human Brain Atlas (http://human.brain-map.org/).”
“Here, we leveraged the unique human brain mRNA expression library from Allen Brain Atlas to show that mRNA reflecting specific genes in the oxytocin pathway are highly expressed in subcortical and temporal brain structures, along with the olfactory region.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Olfaction is not as important for human conspecific identification compared to most other mammals due to species specialization.
“as olfaction is not as important for human conspecific identification compared to most other mammals due to species specialization”
The paper relies on this without support.
Research has not yet demonstrated whether increased OXTR expression in humans is associated with activation of the receptor during specific cognitive states.
“research is yet to demonstrate whether the increased expression of OXTR (as measured by the presence of its transcript) in humans is associated with the activation of the receptor during specific cognitive states.”
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“OXTR mRNA has been detected in the nucleus accumbens (Bethlehem et al. 2017; Quintana et al. 2019)”
From Distribution of brain oxytocin and vasopressin V1a receptors in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): comparison with humans and other primate species (2022) · cites this paper as Quintana et al. 2019
In the citing paper
“Additionally, there is strong correlation between the expression of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) and dopamine receptors (especially D2R) and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors.”
From Translational opportunities for circuit-based social neuroscience: advancing 21st century psychiatry (2021) · cites this paper as [31]
In the citing paper
“Quintana et al. [31] mapped the mRNA of oxytocin pathway genes throughout human brains and found the highest expression in olfactory bulbs and pallidum, high expression in hypothalamus, thalamus, caudate, and putamen, and more moderately elevated expression in amygdala, anterior cingulum, and hippocampus.”
From Translational opportunities for circuit-based social neuroscience: advancing 21st century psychiatry (2021) · cites this paper as [31]
In the citing paper
“Comparing OXTR expression and fMRI activity associated with cognitive states revealed a robust correlation between OXTR expression and activity maps for “sexual”, “motivation”, “incentive”, and “anxiety” cognitive states.”
From Translational opportunities for circuit-based social neuroscience: advancing 21st century psychiatry (2021) · cites this paper as [31]
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§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Methods > Independent sample validation
“Oxytocin pathway median expression values (Log10 transcripts per million) for 10 distinct brain regions”
§ Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain > Methods > Independent sample validation
“(amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex, caudate, cerebellar hemisphere, cerebellum, cortex, frontal cortex, hippocampus, nucleus accumbens, putamen, substantia nigra)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Quintana, D. S., Rokicki, J., van der Meer, D., Alnæs, D., Kaufmann, T., Córdova-Palomera, A., Dieset, I., Andreassen, O. A., & Westlye, L. T.
- Affiliations
- Oslo University Hospital (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Quintana, Daniel S.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2019-02-08
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 668-668
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6368605
- OpenAlex
- W2912308393
- Semantic Scholar
- ba7f26bd71b739a813a7340a6e765b4b799bc092
- Cited by
- 354
- References
- 76
- Citations by year
- 2026: 27 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 43 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 78 · 2020: 74 · 2019: 16
- FWCI
- 65.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Novo Nordisk (NNF16OC0019856)
- Norges Forskningsråd (223273, #249795)
- Novo Nordisk Fonden (NNF16OC0019856)
- Helse Sør-Øst RHF (#2014-097, 2015-073, 223273, 2017–112)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
- Keywords
- oxytocin signaling, oxytocin receptor, CD38, gene co-expression network, subcortical structures, olfactory region, dopaminergic signaling, cognitive states, social behavior, reproductive behavior
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain, Cognition, Female, Humans, Hypothalamus, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Oxytocin, RNA, Messenger, Receptors, Oxytocin, ADP-ribosyl Cyclase 1
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