Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Differential effects of DRN GR deletion in female mice may provide insight into the greater incidence of depression and specific depression symptoms in women. 31846734 2020
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In the context of environmental stress, a functional variant in the glucocorticoid receptor co-chaperone FKBP5 gene has been repeatedly shown to increase risk for psychiatric illness, including depression. 27485401 2017
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In a cross-sectional genetic association study of 526 white outpatients with chronic coronary heart disease, we examined whether haplotypes of the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) are associated with depression. 19783104 2009
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our findings suggest that hypermethylation at the NR3C1 exon 1F may occur in depression. 29793048 2018
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE ACS patients with higher NR3C1 1 F exon methylation levels were at higher risk of developing depressive disorder within 2 weeks of ACS. 30408722 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In addition, GR and corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 1 (CRHR1) genotypes contributed significantly to psychosis measures and CRHR1 contributed significantly to depression severity rating. 24166410 2014
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Pain and depressive-like behavior were measured over 14 days and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF; a factor involved in nociception and depression) and glucocorticoid receptor (GR; a stress-related receptor) expression were measured on day 14. 31815911 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Polymorphisms in the FK506 binding protein 5 (FKBP5) gene have been shown to influence glucocorticoid receptor sensitivity, stress response regulation, and depression risk in traumatized subjects, with most consistent findings reported for the functional variant rs1360780. 25522420 2014
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We found association between the diagnosis of depression and DNA sequence variants in intron 2 as well as in the 5' region of the NR3C1 gene but not for the previously studied exon 2 and putative promoter variants (global test after control of multiple testing, P = 0.02). 18286599 2008
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Allelic variants of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) gene contribute significantly to both cortisol levels and to measures of psychosis; corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 1 variants contribute to measures of depression and psychosis. 24933348 2015
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Network modeling and animal experiments suggest that these genetic differences in GR-induced transcriptional activation may mediate the risk for depression and other psychiatric disorders by altering a network of functionally related stress-sensitive genes in blood and brain. 26050039 2015
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Both GR gene polymorphisms and childhood adversity are known to be associated with increased risk for depression. 19051288 2009
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Bcl1 polymorphism of the glucocorticoid receptor gene and treatment response to milnacipran and fluvoxamine in Japanese patients with depression. 25358426 2014
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Therefore, the interaction of two polymorphisms, one on the cholinergic CHRNA4 receptor gene and one on the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1), on depression was investigated. 22760121 2012
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Recent human studies show that DNA methylation changes of hypothesis-driven candidate gene regions, such as the promoter of the glucocorticoid receptor and the serotonin transporter, were associated with maternal depression in peripheral tissue samples of newborns' cord blood, infants' saliva, or adults' peripheral blood. 28714605 2017
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In association studies, increased susceptibility to depression has been noted in those with polymorphisms in the following: D-amino-acid-oxidase activator/G30 gene complex, glucocorticoid receptor gene, serotonin transporter gene, tryptophan hydroxylase 2 gene, dopamine transporter gene and G protein-coupled receptor 50 gene. 19708722 2009
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Glucocorticoid receptor polymorphism is associated with major depression and predominance of depression in the course of bipolar disorder. 21764460 2011
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This meta-analysis demonstrates that the NR3C1 rs41423247 homozygous mutation may be a risk factor for depression. 30278546 2018
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Haplotypic variation in the regulatory region of the NR3C1 may increase vulnerability to depressive disorders requiring hospital admission, but is not associated with self-reported symptoms. 21477816 2011
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Mothers with depression also had lower NR3C1 than other mothers (p < 0.003) but did not differ in OXTR. 29580902 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this study, we tested the leukocyte mRNA expression levels of genes belonging to glucocorticoid receptor (GR) function (FKBP-4, FKBP-5, and GR), inflammation (interleukin (IL)-1α, IL-1β, IL-4, IL-6, IL-7, IL-8, IL-10, macrophage inhibiting factor (MIF), and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α), and neuroplasticity (brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), p11 and VGF), in healthy controls (n=34) and depressed patients (n=74), before and after 8 weeks of treatment with escitalopram or nortriptyline, as part of the Genome-based Therapeutic Drugs for Depression study. 22990943 2013
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Glucocorticoid receptor dysfunction orchestrates inflammasome effects on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease-induced depression: A potential mechanism underlying the cross talk between lung and brain. 30738183 2019
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Recently, modulation of glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and serotonin receptor 1A (5-HTR1A) were implicated in mechanism(s) leading to depression. 15885359 2005
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Glucocorticoid receptor gene modulates severity of depression in women with crack cocaine addiction. 27397864 2016
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this review, we will focus on the GR as a key player in the precipitation, development and resolution of depression. 20399565 2011