No support for historical candidate gene or candidate gene-by-interaction hypotheses for major depression across multiple large samples

R Border, EC Johnson, LM Evans… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Interest in candidate gene and candidate gene-by-environment interaction
hypotheses regarding major depressive disorder remains strong despite controversy …

The genetics of depression: a review

DF Levinson - Biological psychiatry, 2006 - Elsevier
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is common and moderately heritable. Recurrence and
early age at onset characterize cases with the greatest familial risk. Major depressive …

Poor replication of candidate genes for major depressive disorder using genome-wide association data

FJ Bosker, CA Hartman, IM Nolte, BP Prins… - Molecular …, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract Data from the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN) genome-wide
association study (GWAS) in major depressive disorder (MDD) were used to explore …

Genetic determinants of depression: recent findings and future directions

EC Dunn, RC Brown, Y Dai, J Rosand… - Harvard review of …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
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Polygenic risk scores derived from varying definitions of depression and risk of depression

BL Mitchell, JG Thorp, Y Wu, AI Campos… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Genetic studies with broad definitions of depression may not capture genetic risk
specific to major depressive disorder (MDD), raising questions about how depression …

An analysis of two genome-wide association meta-analyses identifies a new locus for broad depression phenotype

N Direk, S Williams, JA Smith, S Ripke, T Air… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background The genetics of depression has been explored in genome-wide association
studies that focused on either major depressive disorder or depressive symptoms with …

[HTML][HTML] Genetics of depression: progress at last

N Mullins, CM Lewis - Current psychiatry reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review We will describe the success of recent genome-wide
association studies that identify genetic variants associated with depression and outline the …

A genome-wide significant linkage for severe depression on chromosome 3: the depression network study

G Breen, BT Webb, AW Butler… - American Journal of …, 2011 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The purpose of this study was to find loci for major depression via linkage
analysis of a large sibling pair sample. Method: The authors conducted a genome-wide …

[HTML][HTML] The implications of gene–environment interactions in depression: will cause inform cure?

R Uher - Molecular psychiatry, 2008 - nature.com
In a number of human diseases, including depression, interactions between genetic and
environmental factors have been identified in the absence of direct genotype-disorder …

The current state of play on the molecular genetics of depression

S Cohen-Woods, IW Craig, P McGuffin - Psychological medicine, 2013 - cambridge.org
BackgroundIt has been well established that both genes and non-shared environment
contribute substantially to the underlying aetiology of major depressive disorder (MDD). A …