The genetic basis of major depressive disorder

J Flint - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
The genetic dissection of major depressive disorder (MDD) ranks as one of the success
stories of psychiatric genetics, with genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identifying …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association studies in ancestrally diverse populations: opportunities, methods, pitfalls, and recommendations

RE Peterson, K Kuchenbaecker, RK Walters, CY Chen… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have focused primarily on populations of
European descent, but it is essential that diverse populations become better represented …

Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder

J Grove, S Ripke, TD Als, M Mattheisen, RK Walters… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of
neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic …

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 …

Phenotype integration improves power and preserves specificity in biobank-based genetic studies of major depressive disorder

A Dahl, M Thompson, U An, M Krebs, V Appadurai… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Biobanks often contain several phenotypes relevant to diseases such as major depressive
disorder (MDD), with partly distinct genetic architectures. Researchers face complex …

Treatment resistant depression: a multi-scale, systems biology approach

H Akil, J Gordon, R Hen, J Javitch, H Mayberg… - Neuroscience & …, 2018 - Elsevier
An estimated 50% of depressed patients are inadequately treated by available interventions.
Even with an eventual recovery, many patients require a trial and error approach, as there …

Genetics factors in major depression disease

M Shadrina, EA Bondarenko, PA Slominsky - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Depressive disorders (DDs) are one of the most widespread forms of psychiatric pathology.
According to the World Health Organization, about 350 million people in the world are …

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 …

Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

NR Wray, S Ripke, M Mattheisen, M Trzaskowski… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common illness accompanied by considerable
morbidity, mortality, costs, and heightened risk of suicide. We conducted a genome-wide …

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 …