Gender differences in depression: biological, affective, cognitive, and sociocultural factors

JS Hyde, AH Mezulis - Harvard review of psychiatry, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The odds ratio (OR) for gender differences in major depression is 1.95, averaged meta-
analytically over all ages and nations. The gender difference appears by age 12, OR= 2.37 …

Understanding the pathophysiology of depression: From monoamines to the neurogenesis hypothesis model-are we there yet?

E Jesulola, P Micalos, IJ Baguley - Behavioural brain research, 2018 - Elsevier
A number of factors (biogenic amine deficiency, genetic, environmental, immunologic,
endocrine factors and neurogenesis) have been identified as mechanisms which provide …

The genetic architecture of depression in individuals of East Asian ancestry: a genome-wide association study

O Giannakopoulou, K Lin, X Meng, MH Su… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Most previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of depression have
used data from individuals of European descent. This limits the understanding of the …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference

X Meng, G Navoly, O Giannakopoulou, DF Levey… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Most genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of major depression (MD) have been
conducted in samples of European ancestry. Here we report a multi-ancestry GWAS of MD …

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 …

Etiology in psychiatry: embracing the reality of poly‐gene‐environmental causation of mental illness

R Uher, A Zwicker - World Psychiatry, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Intriguing findings on genetic and environmental causation suggest a need to reframe the
etiology of mental disorders. Molecular genetics shows that thousands of common and rare …

Gene-environment interaction and psychiatric disorders: Review and future directions

E Assary, JP Vincent, R Keers, M Pluess - Seminars in cell & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Empirical studies suggest that psychiatric disorders result from a complex interplay between
genetic and environmental factors. Most evidence for such gene-environment interaction …

A genome-wide association study of suicide attempts in the million veterans program identifies evidence of pan-ancestry and ancestry-specific risk loci

NA Kimbrel, AE Ashley-Koch, XJ Qin, JH Lindquist… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
To identify pan-ancestry and ancestry-specific loci associated with attempting suicide among
veterans, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of suicide attempts within …

Sex-specific role for the long non-coding RNA LINC00473 in depression

O Issler, YY van der Zee, A Ramakrishnan, J Wang… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Depression is a common disorder that affects women at twice the rate of men. Here, we
report that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), a recently discovered class of regulatory …

Genome-wide gene-environment analyses of major depressive disorder and reported lifetime traumatic experiences in UK Biobank

JRI Coleman, WJ Peyrot, KL Purves, KAS Davis… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Depression is more frequent among individuals exposed to traumatic events. Both trauma
exposure and depression are heritable. However, the relationship between these traits …