Genetic and environmental determinants of stressful life events and their overlap with depression and neuroticism [version 2; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research

Volumn 3, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Clarke, Toni Kim ^a   Zeng, Yanni ^b   Navrady, Lauren ^a   Xia, Charley ^b   Haley, Chris ^b   Campbell, Archie ^a   Navarro, Pau ^b   Amador, Carmen ^b   Adams, Mark J ^a   Howard, David M ^a   Soler, Aleix ^a   Hayward, Caroline ^b   Thomson, Pippa A ^a   Smith, Blair H ^a,c   Padmanabhan, Sandosh ^a,d   Hocking, Lynne J ^a,e   Hall, Lynsey S ^f   Porteous, David J ^a,b   Deary, Ian J ^a   McIntosh, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; Genetics; Neuroticism; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061098105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2398502X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.13893.2     Document Type: Article

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