Genetic screening for susceptibility to depression: can we and should we?

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OBJECTIVE: To summarize current knowledge about genetic susceptibility to mood disorders and examine ethical and policy issues that will need to be addressed if robustly replicated susceptibility alleles lead to proposals to screen and intervene with persons at increased genetic risk of developing mood disorders. METHOD: Empirical studies and reviews of the genetics of unipolar and bipolar depression were...

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