Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2013

Abstract

Context: The FKBP5 gene product regulates glucocorticoid receptor (GR) sensitivity and hypothalamicpituitary‐adrenal axis functioning, and has been associated with a number of stress‐related psychiatric disorders. The study of intermediate phenotypes, such as emotion‐processing biases and their neural substrates, provides a way to clarify the mechanisms by which FKBP5 dysregulation mediates psychopathology risk.

Objective: To examine whether allelic variations for a putatively functional SNP associated with FKBP5 gene regulation (rs1360780) would relate differentially to attentional bias for threat; this was measured through behavioral response on a dot probe task and hippocampal activation during task performance. Morphological substrates of differential hippocampal response were also measured.

Design: Cross-sectional study examining associations between genotype, behavioral response and neural response (using fMRI) on the dot probe; Voxel-based morphometry (VBM), global and local shape analyses were used to measure structural differences in hippocampi between genotype groups.

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Author Accepted Manuscript version of

N. Fani, D. Gutman, E. Tone, et al. (April 2013). FKBP5 and Attention Bias for Threat Associations With Hippocampal Function and Shape. JAMA Psychiatry. 2013;70(4):392-400.

doi:10.1001/2013.jamapsychiatry.210.

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