Association between childhood maltreatment, psychopathology and DNA methylation of genes involved in stress regulation: Evidence from a study in Borderline Personality Disorder

Vera Flasbeck; Martin Brüne

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0248514

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Association between childhood maltreatment, psychopathology and DNA methylation of genes involved in stress regulation: Evidence from a study in Borderline Personality Disorder

Vera Flasbeck,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Social Neuropsychiatry and Evolutionary Medicine, LWL University Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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Martin Brüne

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: martin.bruene@rub.de

Affiliation Division of Social Neuropsychiatry and Evolutionary Medicine, LWL University Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2507-0561

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Association between childhood maltreatment, psychopathology and DNA methylation of genes involved in stress regulation: Evidence from a study in Borderline Personality Disorder

Vera Flasbeck,
Martin Brüne

Published: March 11, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248514

About the Authors

Vera Flasbeck

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Social Neuropsychiatry and Evolutionary Medicine, LWL University Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Martin Brüne

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: martin.bruene@rub.de

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2507-0561

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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