Additionally, few related studies estimating the associations of NR3C1 methylation with stress exposure and anxiety-related outcomes have accounted for other important confounders other than sex and age [29, 30], such as cortisol and body mass index (BMI), which have also been reported to be associated with anxiety and NR3C1 DNA methylation [31, 32]. Here, NR3C1 is linked to Anxiety.