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Epigenetic prediction of major depressive disorder.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Sept 2021
Barbu Miruna C, Shen Xueyi, Walker Rosie M, Howard David M, Evans Kathryn L, Whalley Heather C, Porteous David J, Morris Stewart W, Deary Ian J, Zeng Yanni, Marioni Riccardo E, Clarke Toni-Kim, McIntosh Andrew M
Abstract excerpt
Variation in DNA methylation (DNAm) is associated with lifestyle factors such as smoking and body mass index (BMI) but there has been little research exploring its ability to identify individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD). Using penalised regression on genome-wide CpG methylation, we tested whether DNAm risk scores (MRS), trained on 1223 MDD cases and 1824 controls, could discriminate between cases...
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