A Genome-Wide Association Study of Depressive Symptoms

Academic Article
Publication Date:
2013
abstract:
Background: Depression is a heritable trait that exists on a continuum of varying severity and duration. Yet, the search for genetic variants associated with depression has had few successes. We exploit the entire continuum of depression to find common variants for depressive symptoms.
Iris type:
01.01 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; CHARGE consortium; depression; depressive symptoms; genetics; genome-wide association study; meta-analysis
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Handle:
https://iris.cnr.it/handle/20.500.14243/247998
Published in:
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY (1969)
Journal