Major depression in China-to-US immigrants and US-born Chinese Americans: Testing a hypothesis from culture-gene co-evolutionary theory of mental disorders

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 167, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-36

  Tan, Tony Xing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

China to US immigrants; Culture gene co evolution; Major depression; US born Chinese

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BODY MASS; COEVOLUTION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURE GENE CO EVOLUTIONARY THEORY OF MENTAL DISORDER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; THEORY; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; LANGUAGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHINA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903209155     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.05.046     Document Type: Article

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