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 …

Principles and methods for transferring polygenic risk scores across global populations

L Kachuri, N Chatterjee, J Hirbo, DJ Schaid… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) summarize the genetic predisposition of a complex human trait
or disease and may become a valuable tool for advancing precision medicine. However …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic risk scores: from research tools to clinical instruments

CM Lewis, E Vassos - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Genome-wide association studies have shown unequivocally that common complex
disorders have a polygenic genetic architecture and have enabled researchers to identify …

The devastating clinical consequences of child abuse and neglect: increased disease vulnerability and poor treatment response in mood disorders

ETC Lippard, CB Nemeroff - American journal of psychiatry, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
A large body of evidence has demonstrated that exposure to childhood maltreatment at any
stage of development can have long-lasting consequences. It is associated with a marked …

[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 …

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 …

Genetic influences on eight psychiatric disorders based on family data of 4 408 646 full and half-siblings, and genetic data of 333 748 cases and controls

E Pettersson, P Lichtenstein, H Larsson… - Psychological …, 2019 - cambridge.org
BackgroundMost studies underline the contribution of heritable factors for psychiatric
disorders. However, heritability estimates depend on the population under study, diagnostic …

A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health

JR Baldwin, HM Sallis, T Schoeler, MJ Taylor… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
Children who experience adversities have an elevated risk of mental health problems.
However, the extent to which adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) cause mental health …

[HTML][HTML] Implementation and implications for polygenic risk scores in healthcare

JL Slunecka, MD van der Zee, JJ Beck, BN Johnson… - Human genomics, 2021 - Springer
Increasing amounts of genetic data have led to the development of polygenic risk scores
(PRSs) for a variety of diseases. These scores, built from the summary statistics of genome …