The genetic basis of major depression

KM Kendall, E Van Assche, TFM Andlauer… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common, debilitating, phenotypically heterogeneous
disorder with heritability ranges from 30% to 50%. Compared to other psychiatric disorders …

Reviewing the genetics of heterogeneity in depression: operationalizations, manifestations and etiologies

N Cai, KW Choi, EI Fried - Human molecular genetics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
With progress in genome-wide association studies of depression, from identifying zero hits
in~ 16 000 individuals in 2013 to 223 hits in more than a million individuals in 2020 …

Structural and functional deficits and couplings in the cortico-striato-thalamo-cerebellar circuitry in social anxiety disorder

X Zhang, X Suo, X Yang, H Lai, N Pan, M He… - Translational …, 2022 - nature.com
Although functional and structural abnormalities in brain regions involved in the
neurobiology of fear and anxiety have been observed in patients with social anxiety disorder …

The genetic determinants of language network dysconnectivity in drug-naïve early stage schizophrenia

J Du, L Palaniyappan, Z Liu, W Cheng, W Gong… - npj …, 2021 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a neurocognitive illness of synaptic and brain network-level
dysconnectivity that often reaches a persistent chronic stage in many patients. Subtle …

[HTML][HTML] Immune dysregulation in depression: Evidence from genome-wide association

JD Tubbs, J Ding, L Baum, PC Sham - Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health, 2020 - Elsevier
A strong body of evidence supports a role for immune dysregulation across many psychiatric
disorders including depression, the leading cause of global disability. Recent progress in …

Genetics and major depressive disorder: clinical implications for disease risk, prognosis and treatment

C Fabbri, S Montgomery, CM Lewis… - International clinical …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
In the post-genomic era, genetics has led to limited clinical applications in the diagnosis and
treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). Variants in genes coding for cytochrome …

Mutational landscape of risk variants in comorbid depression and obesity: a next-generation sequencing approach

AM Pérez-Gutiérrez, R Carmona, C Loucera… - Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Major depression (MD) and obesity are complex genetic disorders that are frequently
comorbid. However, the study of both diseases concurrently remains poorly addressed and …

Identifying changes of brain regional homogeneity and cingulo-opercular network connectivity in first-episode, drug-naïve depressive patients with suicidal ideation

M He, L Ping, Z Chu, C Zeng, Z Shen… - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objective Adult patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) may not actively reveal their
suicidal ideation (SI). Therefore, this study is committed to finding the alterations in the …

Genetic variations in the retrograde endocannabinoid signaling pathway in Chinese patients with major depressive disorder

H Xu, T Li, Q Gong, H Xu, Y Hu, W Lü, X Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The retrograde endocannabinoid (eCB) pathway is closely associated with the
etiology of major depressive disorder (MDD) at both pathophysiological and genetic levels …

Association analysis between catechol-O-methyltransferase expression and cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression

P Ni, M Liu, D Wang, Y Tian, L Zhao, J Wei… - Neuropsychiatric …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (BD), and major depressive disorder are three
common mental disorders. Although their diagnosis and treatment differ, they partially …