Molecular pathways of major depressive disorder converge on the synapse

GR Fries, VA Saldana, J Finnstein, T Rein - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric disease of still poorly understood
molecular etiology. Extensive studies at different molecular levels point to a high complexity …

Depression and anxiety in inflammatory bowel disease: epidemiology, mechanisms and treatment

TH Bisgaard, KH Allin, L Keefer… - Nature reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, is a
chronic, relapsing immune-mediated disease with a varying and sometimes severe disease …

Annual Research Review: Sex, gender, and internalizing conditions among adolescents in the 21st century–trends, causes, consequences

KM Keyes, JM Platt - Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Internalizing conditions of psychopathology include depressive and anxiety disorders; they
most often onset in adolescence, are relatively common, and contribute to significant …

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 …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

DM Howard, MJ Adams, TK Clarke, JD Hafferty… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Major depression is a debilitating psychiatric illness that is typically associated with low
mood and anhedonia. Depression has a heritable component that has remained difficult to …

Minimal phenoty** 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 phenoty** 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 …

Genome-wide association study of depression phenotypes in UK Biobank identifies variants in excitatory synaptic pathways

DM Howard, MJ Adams, M Shirali, TK Clarke… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Depression is a polygenic trait that causes extensive periods of disability. Previous genetic
studies have identified common risk variants which have progressively increased in number …

Evidence for causal effects of lifetime smoking on risk for depression and schizophrenia: a Mendelian randomisation study

RE Wootton, RC Richmond, BG Stuijfzand… - Psychological …, 2020 - cambridge.org
BackgroundSmoking prevalence is higher amongst individuals with schizophrenia and
depression compared with the general population. Mendelian randomisation (MR) can …

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for neuroticism in 449,484 individuals identifies novel genetic loci and pathways

M Nagel, PR Jansen, S Stringer, K Watanabe… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Neuroticism is an important risk factor for psychiatric traits, including depression, anxiety,,
and schizophrenia,–. At the time of analysis, previous genome-wide association studies …

Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations

M Lam, CY Chen, Z Li, AR Martin, J Bryois, X Ma… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder with approximately 1% lifetime risk
globally. Large-scale schizophrenia genetic studies have reported primarily on European …