The role of epigenetics in depression and suicide: A platform for gene-environment interactions

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 235-242

  Lockwood, Laura E ^a   Su, Shaoyong ^a   Youssef, Nagy A ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Epigenetics; Gene environment interactions; Genes; Methylation of genes; Suicidality; Suicide

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR;

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR GENE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR GENE; BRODMANN AREA 8; BRODMANN AREA 9; DEPRESSION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; RECEPTOR, TRKB; SUICIDE;

EID: 84938750427     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.05.071     Document Type: Review

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