Depression in young people

A Thapar, O Eyre, V Patel, D Brent - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Depression rates in young people have risen sharply in the past decade, especially in
females, which is of concern because adolescence is a period of rapid social, emotional …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Minimal phenotyping yields genome-wide association signals of low specificity for major depression

N Cai, JA Revez, MJ Adams, TFM Andlauer, G Breen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Minimal phenotyping refers to the reliance on the use of a small number of self-reported
items for disease case identification, increasingly used in genome-wide association studies …

An exposure-wide and Mendelian randomization approach to identifying modifiable factors for the prevention of depression

KW Choi, MB Stein, KM Nishimi, T Ge… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Efforts to prevent depression, the leading cause of disability worldwide, have
focused on a limited number of candidate factors. Using phenotypic and genomic data from …

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 …

Dissecting diagnostic heterogeneity in depression by integrating neuroimaging and genetics

AM Buch, C Liston - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2021 - nature.com
Depression is a heterogeneous and etiologically complex psychiatric syndrome, not a
unitary disease entity, encompassing a broad spectrum of psychopathology arising from …

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 …

Mental health in UK Biobank–development, implementation and results from an online questionnaire completed by 157 366 participants: a reanalysis

KAS Davis, JRI Coleman, M Adams, N Allen… - BJPsych …, 2020 - cambridge.org
BackgroundUK Biobank is a well-characterised cohort of over 500 000 participants including
genetics, environmental data and imaging. An online mental health questionnaire was …

[HTML][HTML] Major depression: one brain, one disease, one set of intertwined processes

EV Filatova, MI Shadrina, PA Slominsky - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heterogeneous disease affecting one out of five
individuals and is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Presently, MDD is considered a …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …