Ditching candidate gene association studies: lessons from psychiatric genetics

RRR Duarte, H Brentani, TR Powell - Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
No support for historical candidate gene or candidate gene-by-interaction hypotheses for
major depression across multiple large samples. Am J Psychiatry. 2019;176:376-87. …

A re-evaluation of candidate gene studies for well-being in light of genome-wide evidence

MP van de Weijer, DHM Pelt, LP de Vries… - Journal of Happiness …, 2022 - Springer
historical candidate genes for schizophrenia in light of results from a large genomic study, no
… ) effects to abandon the candidate gene approach and to take on the hypothesis-free GWA …

A systematic review of candidate genes for major depression

A Norkeviciene, R Gocentiene, A Sestokaite… - Medicina, 2022 - mdpi.com
… and performed association studies at the polymorphism and gene level in multiple large
samples, found no support for candidate gene or candidate gene-by-interaction hypotheses for …

Reassessment of candidate gene studies for idiopathic restless legs syndrome in a large genome-wide association study dataset of European ancestry

…, International EU-RLS-GENE Consortium - Sleep, 2022 - academic.oup.com
hypothesis-driven candidate gene studies and hypothesis-… In general, studies focused
on single candidate genes or … could not perform any analyses with regard to family history, …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-stratified gene-by-environment genome-wide interaction study of trauma, posttraumatic-stress, and suicidality

FR Wendt, GA Pathak, DF Levey, YZ Nuñez… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - Elsevier
… in past month” and “felt distant from other people in past month,” had … our suggestive results
and test further our hypothesis. … new candidate genes and highlights polygenic transmission …

Early adversity as the prototype gene× environment interaction in mental disorders?

J Martins, N Yusupov, EB Binder, TM Brückl… - Pharmacology …, 2022 - Elsevier
… Further, we discuss the findings supporting GxCA interactions, ranging from candidate gene
… from historic candidate gene and candidate gene-by-environment interaction hypotheses. …

Ancestry may confound genetic machine learning: Candidate-gene prediction of opioid use disorder as an example

AS Hatoum, FR Wendt, M Galimberti… - Drug and alcohol …, 2021 - Elsevier
… have not always accounted for ancestry. Using an empirical example of a proposed genetic
test for … , we show that genetic prediction using ML is vulnerable to ancestral confounding. …

Genome-wide gene-gene interaction of the 5-HTTLPR promoter polymorphism emphasizes the important role of neuroplasticity in depression

L Garvert, K Kirchner, HJ Grabe… - Progress in Neuro …, 2022 - Elsevier
… the role of common candidate genes in the development of … this hypothesis using a
genome-wide gene-gene interaction … been identified in the past, including genetic, psychological …

Complex multi-environment gene interactions linked to the interplay between polysubstance dependence and suicidal behaviors

R Polimanti, DF Levey, GA Pathak, FR Wendt… - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
… Most genetic studies of suicidal behaviors are candidate gene analyses that, as … No
Support for Historical Candidate Gene or Candidate Gene-by-Interaction Hypotheses for …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide by environment interaction study of stressful life events and hospital-treated depression in the iPSYCH2012 sample

NP Suppli, KK Andersen, E Agerbo… - … psychiatry global open …, 2022 - Elsevier
… The hypothesis-driven (ie, candidate gene) approach for identifying specific variants associated
with a given outcome has not … Extrapolating from the history of GWASs in psychiatry, we …