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How important are parents in the development of child anxiety and depression? A genomic analysis of parent-offspring trios in the Norwegian Mother Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa).
BMC medicine - 27 Oct 2020
Cheesman Rosa, Eilertsen Espen Moen, Ahmadzadeh Yasmin I, Gjerde Line C, Hannigan Laurie J, Havdahl Alexandra, Young Alexander I, Eley Thalia C, Njølstad Pål R, Magnus Per, Andreassen Ole A, Ystrom Eivind, McAdams Tom A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Many studies detect associations between parent behaviour and child symptoms of anxiety and depression. Despite knowledge that anxiety and depression are influenced by a complex interplay of genetic and environmental risk factors, most studies do not account for shared familial genetic risk. Quantitative genetic designs provide a means of controlling for shared genetics, but rely on observed putative...
Topics
- Anxiety
- Cohort Studies
- Depression
- Fathers
- Female
- Genomics
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Mothers