Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE In this first study in humans to examine the joint effects of prenatal and postnatal environmental exposures, we report that GR gene (NR3C1) 1-F promoter methylation in infants is elevated in the presence of increased maternal postnatal depression following low prenatal depression, and that this effect is reversed by self-reported stroking of the infants by their mothers over the first weeks of life. 25942041 2015
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 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Effects of cytokines on glucocorticoid receptor expression and function. Glucocorticoid resistance and relevance to depression. 10442170 1999
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In addition, six glucocorticoid receptor pathway genes (Slc22a5, Aqp1, Stat5a, Ampd3, Plekhf1, and Cyb561) were upregulated in GF mice, and of these only two (Stat5a and Ampd3) were upregulated in LPS-treated mice, whereas the shared gene, Stat5a, was downregulated in "depression microbiota" recipient mice. 30194287 2018
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 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 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE APPL2 Tg mice displayed higher GR activity and less capacity of neurogenesis at olfactory system with less olfactory sensitivity than WT mice, indicating that APPL2 could be a potential therapeutic target for depression and olfactory deficits. 29675572 2018
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 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In this review we summarize different approaches used to alter or eliminate glucocorticoid receptor expression and function, and discuss their relevance as models for depression. 17524489 2008
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 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 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 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
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE The glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) displayed different methylation patterns in chronic stress and depression. 27998510 2017
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE Conclusively: (1) depression in females may result from a gene × childhood-adversity interaction and/or a dysregulated epigenetic programming of MAOA; (2) childhood-adversity subtypes may differentially impact DNA methylation at NR3C1; (3) baseline MAOA-genotypic variations may affect the extent of NR3C1 methylation. 23449091 2013
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE The study showed that altered phosphorylation of GR could contribute to impaired GR function related to the pathophysiology of depression. 23123359 2013
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Epigenetics and the glucocorticoid receptor: A review of the implications in depression. 27344028 2016
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 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE Most studies showed BDNF and NR3C1 gene methylation levels were correlated with depression while the connection of SLC6A4 and depression was conflicting. 28645747 2017
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 Biomarker disease BEFREE Using high throughput technologies for the identification of genes regulated by glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and MR in brain areas responsible for specific symptoms of stress-related disorders will yield potential new drug targets for the treatment of depression and anxiety. 11566214 2001