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The protective effect of the obesity-associated rs9939609 A variant in fat mass- and obesity-associated gene on depression.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Dec 2013
Samaan Z, Anand S S, Anand S, Zhang X, Desai D, Rivera M, Pare G, Thabane L, Xie C, Gerstein H, Engert J C, Craig I, Cohen-Woods S, Mohan V, Diaz R, Wang X, Liu L, Corre T, Preisig M, Kutalik Z, Bergmann S, Vollenweider P, Waeber G, Yusuf S, Meyre D
Abstract excerpt
Candidate gene and genome-wide association studies have not identified common variants, which are reliably associated with depression. The recent identification of obesity predisposing genes that are highly expressed in the brain raises the possibility of their genetic contribution to depression. As variation in the intron 1 of the fat mass- and obesity-associated (FTO) gene contributes to polygenic obesity, we...
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