No support for historical candidate gene or candidate gene-by-interaction hypotheses for major depression across multiple large samples

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 176, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 376-387

  Border, Richard ^a,b   Johnson, Emma C ^a,c,d   Evans, Luke M ^a,b   Smolen, Andrew ^a   Berley, Noah ^b   Sullivan, Patrick F ^e,f   Keller, Matthew C ^a,b  

^a Institute for Behavioral Genetics   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology and Neuroscience ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDATE GENE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ABUSE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL STATUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85065510660     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18070881     Document Type: Article

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