Expressive

rs1152578 - ESR2

Magnitude 2.2 · 2 studies on file

Reported associations

  • The Australian Genetics of Depression Study: New Risk Loci and Dissecting Heterogeneity Between Subtypes. - Biological psychiatry (2022) · Mitchell BL, Campos AI, Whiteman DC, Olsen CM, Gordon SD, Walker AJ, Dean OM, Berk M, Hickie IB, Medland SE, Wray NR, Martin NG, Byrne EM · PubMed 34924174

    Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common and highly heterogeneous psychiatric disorder, but little is known about the genetic characterization of this heterogeneity. Understanding the genetic etiology of MDD can be challenging because large sample sizes are needed for gene discovery-often achieved with a trade-off in the depth of phenotyping. The Australian Genetics of Depression Study is the largest stand-alone depression cohort with both genetic data and in-depth phenotyping and comprises a total of 15,792 participants of European ancestry, 92% of whom met diagnostic criteria for MDD. We leveraged the unique nature of this cohort to conduct a meta-analysis with the largest publicly available depression genome-wide association study to date and subsequently used polygenic scores to inv

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions - Unknown journal (n.d.) · Unknown authors · PubMed 30718901

    ABSTRACT: Major depression is a debilitating psychiatric illness that is typically associated with low mood and anhedonia. Depression has a heritable component that has remained difficult to elucidate with current sample sizes due to the polygenic nature of the disorder. To maximise sample size, we meta-analysed data on 807,553 individuals (246,363 cases and 561,190 controls) from the three largest genome-wide association studies of depression. We identified 102 independent variants, 269 genes, and 15 gene-sets associated with depression, including both genes and gene-pathways associated with synaptic structure and neurotransmission. An enrichment analysis provided further evidence of the importance of prefrontal brain regions. In an independent replication sample of 1,306,354 individuals

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