Sweetleaf
MyPTSD Pro
So all I have is ancestry DNA data, though in the future I'd love to get more elaborate testing done, or at least add things like 23andme, etc.
I ran it through promethease, and saw some interesting things when I looked into things that had to do with PTSD. I haven't looked into very much, just because there's so much to look into, and there is so much cool shit that has nothing to do with PTSD - like it shows that I have the genes for heightened odds of photic sneeze reflex, which is cool because I am actually a photic sneezer, so it's cool to see that turn up.
When I filtered for genes that have to do with PTSD, I found that I have some genes that increase risk for PTSD, or at least some that are specifically labeled as having that risk associated with them. These mostly have to do with memory. I can get more detailed if anyone wants. (that goes for anything in this post)
I also typed in "hippocamp" into the search function to find anything to do with the hippocampus (used "hippocamp" so that "hippocampal" would also show up)
There are 18 results that say I have genes associated with hippocampal atrophy (over half of the search results)
There are 6 results saying I have genes for reduced hippocampus volume.
The rest is like, bipolar/schizophrenia risk stuff, and seizure risk stuff, and alzheimers risk stuff.
Here's one of those that struck my eye:
Isn't PTSD associated with smaller hippocampal volumes?
Just food for thought. I kinda take all this gene shit with a grain of salt, but it's interesting nonetheless. My pdoc's other job has to do with this kind of stuff, it's going to be really interesting to talk with her about this. She was suggesting I use promethease to look into my folate related genes (turns out I have "1 copy of C677T allele of MTHFR" which is supposed to cause 65% efficiency in processing folic acid, makes sense that my methylfolate supplements are making me feel better)
Anybody else looked into their genes? Particularly to see if there's anything related to increased PTSD chance? What are your thoughts on this kind of stuff?
I ran it through promethease, and saw some interesting things when I looked into things that had to do with PTSD. I haven't looked into very much, just because there's so much to look into, and there is so much cool shit that has nothing to do with PTSD - like it shows that I have the genes for heightened odds of photic sneeze reflex, which is cool because I am actually a photic sneezer, so it's cool to see that turn up.
When I filtered for genes that have to do with PTSD, I found that I have some genes that increase risk for PTSD, or at least some that are specifically labeled as having that risk associated with them. These mostly have to do with memory. I can get more detailed if anyone wants. (that goes for anything in this post)
I also typed in "hippocamp" into the search function to find anything to do with the hippocampus (used "hippocamp" so that "hippocampal" would also show up)
There are 18 results that say I have genes associated with hippocampal atrophy (over half of the search results)
There are 6 results saying I have genes for reduced hippocampus volume.
The rest is like, bipolar/schizophrenia risk stuff, and seizure risk stuff, and alzheimers risk stuff.
Here's one of those that struck my eye:
But there are multiple things on this saying "you have genes for smaller hippocampal volume"rs7294919 showed a particularly strong link to a reduced hippocampus volume, suggesting that this gene is very important to hippocampus development or health.
Isn't PTSD associated with smaller hippocampal volumes?
Just food for thought. I kinda take all this gene shit with a grain of salt, but it's interesting nonetheless. My pdoc's other job has to do with this kind of stuff, it's going to be really interesting to talk with her about this. She was suggesting I use promethease to look into my folate related genes (turns out I have "1 copy of C677T allele of MTHFR" which is supposed to cause 65% efficiency in processing folic acid, makes sense that my methylfolate supplements are making me feel better)
Anybody else looked into their genes? Particularly to see if there's anything related to increased PTSD chance? What are your thoughts on this kind of stuff?