The genetics of mood disorders

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 313-337

  Lau, Jennifer Y F ^a   Eley, Thalia C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endophenotypes; Epigenetic; Gene environment correlation; Gene environment interaction; Major depression

Indexed keywords

DNA; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANHEDONIA; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; ETHNICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MOOD DISORDERS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 77952904877     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.121208.131308     Document Type: Review

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