Seid Muhie, Aarti Gautam, Ruoting Yang, Burook Misganaw, Bernie J Daigle, Synthia H Mellon, Janine D Flory, Duna Abu-Amara, Inyoul Lee, Kai Wang, Ryan Rampersaud, Leroy Hood, Rachel Yehuda, Charles R Marmar, Owen M Wolkowitz, Kerry J Ressler, Francis J Doyle, Rasha Hammamieh, Marti Jett
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a multisystem syndrome. Integration of systems-level multi-modal datasets can provide a molecular understanding of PTSD. Proteomic, metabolomic, and epigenomic assays are conducted on blood samples of two cohorts of well-characterized PTSD cases and controls: 340 veterans and 180 active-duty soldiers. All participants had been deployed to Iraq and/or Afghanistan and exposed to military-service-related criterion A trauma. Molecular signatures are identified from a discovery cohort of 218 veterans (109/109 PTSD+/-)...
May 16, 2023: Cell reports medicine