In addition to these outcomes our MWAS DMR analysis showed a subsequent amount (nominal significant) of overlap with DMR’s reported in the first treatment related studies in adults with PTSD, annotated to RNF39, DUSP22, DIP2C and HOXA4, MUC4 genes [11, 13, 26, 45]. Here, HOXA4 is linked to post-traumatic stress disorder.