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Bi-ancestral depression GWAS in the Million Veteran Program and meta-analysis in >1.2 million individuals highlight new therapeutic directions.
Nature neuroscience - 1 Jul 2021
Levey Daniel F, Stein Murray B, Wendt Frank R, Pathak Gita A, Zhou Hang, Aslan Mihaela, Quaden Rachel, Harrington Kelly M, Nuñez Yaira Z, Overstreet Cassie, Radhakrishnan Krishnan, Sanacora Gerard, McIntosh Andrew M, Shi Jingchunzi, Shringarpure Suyash S, Concato John, Polimanti Renato, Gelernter Joel
Abstract excerpt
Major depressive disorder is the most common neuropsychiatric disorder, affecting 11% of veterans. Here we report results of a large meta-analysis of depression using data from the Million Veteran Program, 23andMe, UK Biobank and FinnGen, including individuals of European ancestry (n = 1,154,267; 340,591 cases) and African ancestry (n = 59,600; 25,843 cases). Transcriptome-wide association study analyses revealed...
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