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 …

Circadian depression: a mood disorder phenotype

JS Carpenter, JJ Crouse, EM Scott, SL Naismith… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Major mood syndromes are among the most common and disabling mental disorders.
However, a lack of clear delineation of their underlying pathophysiological mechanisms is a …

Cross-ancestry meta-analysis of opioid use disorder uncovers novel loci with predominant effects in brain regions associated with addiction

RL Kember, R Vickers-Smith, H Xu, S Toikumo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite an estimated heritability of~ 50%, genome-wide association studies of opioid use
disorder (OUD) have revealed few genome-wide significant loci. We conducted a cross …

Role of the gut-brain axis in the shared genetic etiology between gastrointestinal tract diseases and psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide pleiotropic analysis

W Gong, P Guo, Y Li, L Liu, R Yan, S Liu… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Comorbidities and genetic correlations between gastrointestinal tract diseases
and psychiatric disorders have been widely reported, with the gut-brain axis (GBA) …

The genetics of the mood disorder spectrum: genome-wide association analyses of more than 185,000 cases and 439,000 controls

JRI Coleman, HA Gaspar, J Bryois, EM Byrne… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Mood disorders (including major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder)
affect 10% to 20% of the population. They range from brief, mild episodes to severe …

A powerful method for pleiotropic analysis under composite null hypothesis identifies novel shared loci between Type 2 Diabetes and Prostate Cancer

D Ray, N Chatterjee - PLoS genetics, 2020 - journals.plos.org
There is increasing evidence that pleiotropy, the association of multiple traits with the same
genetic variants/loci, is a very common phenomenon. Cross-phenotype association tests are …

The genetics of depression: successful genome-wide association studies introduce new challenges

J Ormel, CA Hartman, H Snieder - Translational psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
The recent successful genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for depression have
yielded more than 80 replicated loci and brought back the excitement that had evaporated …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic associations between voltage-gated calcium channels and psychiatric disorders

A Andrade, A Brennecke, S Mallat, J Brown… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Psychiatric disorders are mental, behavioral or emotional disorders. These conditions are
prevalent, one in four adults suffer from any type of psychiatric disorders world-wide. It has …

A sex-specific genome-wide association study of depression phenotypes in UK Biobank

PP Silveira, I Pokhvisneva, DM Howard… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
There are marked sex differences in the prevalence, phenotypic presentation and treatment
response for major depression. While genome-wide association studies (GWAS) adjust for …

Association of polygenic score for major depression with response to lithium in patients with bipolar disorder

AT Amare, KO Schubert, L Hou, SR Clark… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Lithium is a first-line medication for bipolar disorder (BD), but only one in three patients
respond optimally to the drug. Since evidence shows a strong clinical and genetic overlap …