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The role of glucocorticoid receptor gene in the association between attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and smaller brain structures

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JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION
卷 128, 期 12, 页码 1907-1916

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SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-021-02425-w

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Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder; Glucocorticoid receptor; Amygdala; Nucleus accumbens; Neuroimaging

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  1. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico [466722/2014-1, 424041/2016-2, 426905/2016-4, 431472/2018-1, 140853/2019-7]
  2. Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior-Brasil (CAPES) [001]
  3. FIPE-HCPA [160600]
  4. GPPG-HCPA [01-321]

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ADHD is associated with smaller brain volumes in subcortical regions and cortical surface area, with greater impact in children than adults. Dysregulation of the HPA axis is also linked to ADHD. Variations in the NR3C1 gene may partly explain the unclear relationship between brain structures and ADHD in adults.
ADHD is associated with smaller subcortical brain volumes and cortical surface area, with greater effects observed in children than adults. It is also associated with dysregulation of the HPA axis. Considering the effects of the glucocorticoid receptor (NR3C1) in neurophysiology, we hypothesize that the blurred relationships between brain structures and ADHD in adults could be partly explained by NR3C1 gene variation. Structural T1-weighted images were acquired on a 3 T scanner (N = 166). Large-scale genotyping was performed, and it was followed by quality control and pruning procedures, which resulted in 48 independent NR3C1 gene variants analyzed. After a stringent Bonferroni correction, two SNPs (rs2398631 and rs72801070) moderated the association between ADHD and accumbens and amygdala volumes in adults. The significant SNPs that interacted with ADHD appear to have a role in gene expression regulation, and they are in linkage disequilibrium with NR3C1 variants that present well-characterized physiological functions. The literature-reported associations of ADHD with accumbens and amygdala were only observed for specific NR3C1 genotypes. Our findings reinforce the influence of the NR3C1 gene on subcortical volumes and ADHD. They suggest a genetic modulation of the effects of a pivotal HPA axis component in the neuroanatomical features of ADHD.

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