Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE The present study shows that depression attenuates the mechanical allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia of neuropathic pain and suggests that altered spinal GR-BDNF-TrkB signaling may be one of the reasons for depression-induced hypoalgesia. 28579944 2017
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE FKBP5 and specific microRNAs via glucocorticoid receptor in the basolateral amygdala involved in the susceptibility to depressive disorder in early adolescent stressed rats. 28826069 2017
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 Biomarker disease BEFREE The hypo‑level of adrenocorticotropic hormone, noradrenaline and glucocorticoid receptor in serum and hypothalamus of depression‑like rats was enhanced by PHC. 28849191 2017
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 Epigenetics and the glucocorticoid receptor: A review of the implications in depression. 27344028 2016
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Altered DNA methylation (DNAm) levels of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis genes has been associated with exposure to childhood maltreatment (CM) and depression; however, it is unknown whether CM and depression have joint and potentially interacting effects on the glucocorticoid receptor (NR3C1) DNAm. 27475889 2016
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 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The externalizing disorders group had significantly lower NR3C1 methylation levels than the lifetime depressive disorder group (p = 0.009) and healthy controls (p = 0.001) This report of lower methylation levels in NR3C1 in externalizing disorders may indicate a mechanism through which the differential development of externalizing disorders as opposed to depressive disorders might occur. 25894927 2015
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 Biomarker disease BEFREE The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) gene (NR3C1) has been found to be susceptible to epigenetic modification, specifically DNA methylation, in the context of environmental stress such as early life trauma, which is an established risk for depression later in life. 26387521 2015
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Depression has been linked to dysfunction of the intracellular response system to corticosteroids at the level of the hippocampus (HC) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) with a notable role of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and its co-chaperones (FKBP5 and FKBP4). 25666308 2015
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease PSYGENET 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 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 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 Biomarker disease PSYGENET We investigated PTSD and depression severity, plasma cortisol, GR and mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) levels, and methylation status of NR3C1 and NR3C2 promoter regions in 25 women exposed to the Tutsi genocide during pregnancy and their children, and 25 women from the same ethnicity, pregnant during the same period but not exposed to the genocide, and their children. 24690014 2014
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease PSYGENET 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 Biomarker disease BEFREE Recent research suggests an important role of FKBP5, a glucocorticoid receptor regulating co-chaperone, in the development of stress-related diseases such as depression and anxiety disorders. 24411633 2014
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 Biomarker disease PSYGENET Methylation in CpG sites in candidate genes were not predictors of depression at significance levels corrected for whole genome testing, but maltreated and control children did have significantly different β values after Bonferroni correction at multiple methylation sites in these candidate genes (e.g., BDNF, NR3C1, FKBP5). 24655651 2014
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE We investigated PTSD and depression severity, plasma cortisol, GR and mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) levels, and methylation status of NR3C1 and NR3C2 promoter regions in 25 women exposed to the Tutsi genocide during pregnancy and their children, and 25 women from the same ethnicity, pregnant during the same period but not exposed to the genocide, and their children. 24690014 2014
CUI: C0011581
Disease: Depressive disorder
Depressive disorder
0.600 Biomarker disease PSYGENET 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 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 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