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Cortical Transcriptomic Alterations in Association with Appetitive Neuropeptides and Body Mass Index in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 2020 September 20
BACKGROUND: The molecular pathology underlying posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains unclear mainly due to a lack of human PTSD postmortem brain tissue. The orexigenic neuropeptides ghrelin, neuropeptide Y, and hypocretin have been recently implicated in modulating negative affect. Drawing from the largest functional genomics study of human PTSD postmortem tissue, we investigated whether there were molecular changes of these and other appetitive molecules. Further, we explored the interaction between PTSD and body mass index (BMI) on gene expression.
METHODS: We analyzed previously reported transcriptomic data from four prefrontal cortex regions from 52 individuals with PTSD and 46 matched neurotypical controls. We employed gene co-expression network analysis across the transcriptomes of these regions to uncover PTSD-specific networks containing orexigenic genes. We utilized Ingenuity Pathway Analysis software for pathway annotation. We identified differentially expressed genes (DEGs) among individuals with and without PTSD, stratified by sex and BMI.
RESULTS: Three PTSD-associated networks (p<0.01) contained genes in signaling families of appetitive molecules, two in females and one in all subjects. We uncovered DEGs (p<0.05) between PTSD and control subjects stratified by sex and BMI, with especially robust changes in males with PTSD with elevated versus normal BMI. Further, we identified putative upstream regulators (p<0.05) driving these changes, many of which were enriched for involvement in inflammation.
CONCLUSIONS: PTSD-associated cortical transcriptomic modules contain transcripts of appetitive genes, and BMI further interacts with PTSD to impact expression. DEGs and inferred upstream regulators of these modules could represent targets for future pharmacotherapies for obesity in PTSD.
METHODS: We analyzed previously reported transcriptomic data from four prefrontal cortex regions from 52 individuals with PTSD and 46 matched neurotypical controls. We employed gene co-expression network analysis across the transcriptomes of these regions to uncover PTSD-specific networks containing orexigenic genes. We utilized Ingenuity Pathway Analysis software for pathway annotation. We identified differentially expressed genes (DEGs) among individuals with and without PTSD, stratified by sex and BMI.
RESULTS: Three PTSD-associated networks (p<0.01) contained genes in signaling families of appetitive molecules, two in females and one in all subjects. We uncovered DEGs (p<0.05) between PTSD and control subjects stratified by sex and BMI, with especially robust changes in males with PTSD with elevated versus normal BMI. Further, we identified putative upstream regulators (p<0.05) driving these changes, many of which were enriched for involvement in inflammation.
CONCLUSIONS: PTSD-associated cortical transcriptomic modules contain transcripts of appetitive genes, and BMI further interacts with PTSD to impact expression. DEGs and inferred upstream regulators of these modules could represent targets for future pharmacotherapies for obesity in PTSD.
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