Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Recent evidence has suggested that impaired glucocorticoid receptor (GR), the signaling of key molecules of the HPA axis, plays a key role in the behavioral and neuroendorcrine alterations of major depression. 31837802 2020
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We have previously shown that genetic variants that moderate GR-induced gene transcription (GR-response eSNPs) are significantly enriched among risk variants from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for MDD and SCZ. 30696808 2019
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Alterations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis such as altered glucocorticoid receptor sensitivity and increased immune reactivity might contribute to the pathogenesis of major depressive disorder (MDD). 30391558 2019
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The dense DNA methylation of the 1F exon of the NR3C1, implying the hypermethylated region of the glucocorticoid receptor gene, was observed in the nexus between ELS and MDD, common effect size (CES) = 14.96, 95%CI, 10.06-19.85. 31689998 2019
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Because high stress augments bFGF levels in the brain, it is likely that bFGF plays a compensating role for reduced GR expression after stress and thus should be studied as a therapeutic target for the treatment of MDD. 29958871 2018
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The gene for the glucocorticoid receptor regulator FK506 binding protein 5 (FKBP5) plays a role for risk, response to treatment, and changes in brain areas in major depressive disorder (MDD). 29182159 2018
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Glucocorticoid Receptor Genetic Variants and Response to Fluoxetine in Major Depressive Disorder. 28641498 2018
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Alterations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, especially of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) function, are often observed in MDD, but evidence lacks for anxious depression. 30086534 2018
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The molecular foundation for the impact of stressors on the risk to develop MDD is based on the hormonal stress response itself: the glucocorticoid receptor (GR, encoded by NR3C1). 28523546 2017
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE We also found concomitant reductions in expression of BDNF, FKBP5 transcript variants (1, 2 and 3), and NR3C1 genes in these patients, suggesting that promoter hypermethylation in these genes may functionally be associated with their observed downregulation in MDD patients. 28246044 2017
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE After conservative correction of Type-I-error to obtain reliable p values, one SNP in the NR3C1 gene, namely rs6195, showed a significant association with the presence of a major depression (p = 0.048) in females. 27549215 2017
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Fifty-nine depressed individuals with major depressive disorder (n=33) or bipolar disorder (n=26), and 32 healthy individuals were genotyped for the glucocorticoid receptor BclI G/C polymorphism, and underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging during a monetary reward task. 26349556 2016
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Aim Based on the AGENDA trial dataset, we analysed whether an intervention with SSRI versus placebo decreases the GRα mRNA expression in peripheral blood cells in healthy first-degree relatives of patients with major depression. 26752119 2016
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Both CM and MDD were significant predictors of NR3C1 DNAm: CM was associated with an increase in DNAm in an EGR1 transcription factor binding site (TFBS), whereas MDD was associated with a decrease in DNAm downstream of the TFBS. 27475889 2016
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR-RELATED GENES: GENOTYPE AND BRAIN GENE EXPRESSION RELATIONSHIPS TO SUICIDE AND MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER. 27030168 2016
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Several other transcriptional regulation pathways, including the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), nuclear factor kappa-B cells (NF-κB), early growth response proteins 1-4 (EGR1-4) and interferon-responsive TFs, showed either no significant differences as a function of disease or treatment, or activities that were opposite to those previously hypothesized to be involved in the etiology of MDD or effective treatment. 27219347 2016
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE Taken together, these results indicate that CDK5 is an integral component of stress response and major depression with regulatory means specific to different stressors, brain areas and diseases in part through changing phosphorylation of GR. 26057048 2015
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease PSYGENET Clinical characteristics of inflammation-associated depression: Monocyte gene expression is age-related in major depressive disorder. 25150007 2015
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE These data suggest that higher levels of methylation at the NR3C1 promoter may be associated with MDD in a gender-specific manner. 26782558 2015
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease PSYGENET Therefore, the results suggest that accumulation of the GR in cytoplasm is related to the elevation of FKBP5, adding one more step in understanding altered GR signalling in lymphocytes, and potentially brain tissue, of MDD patients. 25355489 2015
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We analyzed in retrospect whether recurrent MDD (n=951) in comparison with first onset MDD (n=919) was associated with polymorphisms in the GR and MR gene. 25765757 2015
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Therefore, the results suggest that accumulation of the GR in cytoplasm is related to the elevation of FKBP5, adding one more step in understanding altered GR signalling in lymphocytes, and potentially brain tissue, of MDD patients. 25355489 2015
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease PSYGENET Inflammatory activation is associated with a reduced glucocorticoid receptor alpha/beta expression ratio in monocytes of inpatients with melancholic major depressive disorder. 24424390 2014
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 Biomarker disease PSYGENET We compared the degree of NR3C1 promoter methylation in the peripheral blood of non-psychotic outpatients with MDD and that of healthy controls. 24465557 2014
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.400 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE We compared the degree of NR3C1 promoter methylation in the peripheral blood of non-psychotic outpatients with MDD and that of healthy controls. 24465557 2014