RAPID PUBLICATION A Genome-Wide Identified Risk Variant for PTSD is a Methylation Quantitative Trait Locus and Confers Decreased Cortical Activation to Fearful Faces

A Genome-Wide Identified Risk Variant for PTSD is a Methylation Quantitative Trait Locus and Confers Decreased Cortical Activation to Fearful Faces Lynn M. Almli, Jennifer S. Stevens, Alicia K. Smith, Varun Kilaru, Qian Meng, Janine Flory, Duna Abu-Amara, Rasha Hammamieh, Ruoting Yang, Kristina B. Mercer, Elizabeth B. Binder, Bekh Bradley, Steven Hamilton, Marti Jett, Rachel Yehuda, Charles R. Marmar, and Kerry J. Ressler* Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center, New York, New York Mental Health Care Center, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York/Traumatic Stress Studies Division, New York, New York Department of Psychiatry, New York University, Steven and Alexandra Cohen Veterans Center for Posttraumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury, New York, New York Integrative Systems Biology, US Army Center for Environmental Health Research, Fort Detrick, Maryland Advanced Biomedical Computing Center, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research/SAIC-Frederick Inc., Frederick, Maryland Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health Service Line, Atlanta, Georgia Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland