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21184587
TITLE
Gene-environment interactions in panic disorder and CO2 sensitivity: Effects of events occurring early in life.
ABSTRACT
Heterogeneous life events (LE) precede the onset of-and potentially increase the susceptibility to-panic disorder (PD). It remains unknown whether LE can act as moderators in the context of gene-by-environment interactions (G×E) that alter the susceptibility to PD and the related trait of CO₂ sensitivity, nor it is known whether such moderation may depend on occurrence of events at different epochs in life. In 712 general population twins we analyzed by Maximum Likelihood analyses of ordinal data whether life (major- and stressful) events moderate the genetic risk for PD and CO₂ sensitivity, as indexed by the 35% CO₂ /65% O₂ challenge. For CO₂ sensitivity, best-fitting models encompassed both additive and interactional effects that increased linearly with the cumulative number and severity (SEV) of events in lifetime. By analyzing the moderation effect of cumulative SEV separately for events that had occurred in adulthood (between age 18 and 37) or during childhood-adolescence (before the 18th birthday), we found evidence of G×E only within the childhood-adolescence window of risk, although twins had rated the childhood-adolescence events as significantly (P = 0.001) less severe than those having occurred during adulthood. For PD, all interactional terms could be dropped without significant worsening of the models' fit. Consistently with a diathesis-stress model, LE appear to act as moderators of the genetic variance for CO₂ sensitivity. Childhood-adolescence appears to constitute a sensitive period to the action of events that concur to alter the susceptibility to this panic-related trait.
Copyright © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
DATE PUBLISHED
2011 Jan
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
received 2010/06/24
accepted 2010/10/21
entrez 2010/12/25 06:00
pubmed 2010/12/25 06:00
medline 2011/04/05 06:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Spatola CA Spatola Chiara A M CA The Academic Centre for the Study of Behavioural Plasticity, 'Vita-Salute' San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
Scaini S Scaini Simona S
Pesenti-Gritti P Pesenti-Gritti Paola P
Medland SE Medland Sarah E SE
Moruzzi S Moruzzi Sara S
Ogliari A Ogliari Anna A
Tambs K Tambs Kristian K
Battaglia M Battaglia Marco M
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 156B
ISSUE: 1
TITLE: American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics
ISOABBREVIATION: Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet
YEAR: 2011
MONTH: Jan
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1552-485X
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 1552-4841
NLMUNIQUEID: 101235742
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adult
Carbon Dioxide pharmacology
Environment pharmacology
Humans pharmacology
Life Change Events pharmacology
Models, Genetic pharmacology
Panic Disorder genetics
Twins genetics
Young Adult genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
142M471B3J Carbon Dioxide
OTHER ID's