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. 2020 Jun;113:133–156. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.03.007

Table 2.

Associations between image features and DNAm.

Image Feature
(number of studies)
Differential DNAm: gene or feature
Global fractional anisotropy (n = 2) DNAm age (Horvath)
DNAm age (Hannum)
Regional fractional anisotropy (n = 6)
  • Corpus callosum

SLC6A4
FMR1
DNAm age (Hannum)
  • Ventrolateral thalamus

  • Right anterior corona radiata

  • Right parahippocampal cingulum

SMOC2
BDNF
TESC
Regional radial, mean or axial diffusivity (n = 5)
  • Inferior and middle cerebellar peduncle

  • Corpus Callosum

  • Right anterior corona radiata

  • Right parahippocampal cingulum

FMR1
DNAm age (Hannum)
SLC6A4
BDNF
TESC
Amygdala functional connectivity
(n = 9)
SLC6A4
SLC6A4
SLC6A4
SLC6A3/DAT
SLC6A4
OXTR
OXTR
SLC6A4
SLC6A4
Hippocampal functional connectivity
(n = 4)
SLC6A4
Cluster of genes identified through EWAS (Wang et al., 2017)*
Cluster of genes identified through EWAS (Hu et al., 2018)*
BDNF
Prefrontal cortex functional connectivity
(n = 8)
FKBP5
MB-COMT
BDNF
NR3C1
HTR3A
COMT
SLC6A4
BDNF
Hippocampal volume
(n = 11)
BDNF
SLC6A4
TESC
DNAm age (Horvath)
Cluster of genes identified through EWAS (Hass et al., 2015)*
OXTR
DNAm age (Hannum)
FKBP5
NR3C1-1F
SLC6A4
FKBP5
Cortical volume
(n = 2)
Cluster of genes identified through EWAS (Casey et al., 2017)*
Cluster of genes identified through EWAS (Liu et al., 2015)*
Cortical thickness
(n = 6)
SLC6A4
BDNF
FKBP5
FMR1
SKA2
Independent component of DNAm (Freytag et al., 2017)
PFC (volume/thickness)
(n = 2)
OXTR
SKA2

*See Table 3, Table 4, Table 5, Table 6, Table 7, Table 8, Table 9 for list of genes included in clusters identified by EWAS.