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Sex Significantly Impacts the Function of Major Depression-Linked Variants In Vivo.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Sept 2023
Mulvey Bernard, Selmanovic Din, Dougherty Joseph D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have discovered blocks of common variants-likely transcriptional-regulatory-associated with major depressive disorder (MDD), though the functional subset and their biological impacts remain unknown. Likewise, why depression occurs in females more frequently than males is unclear. We therefore tested the hypothesis that risk-associated functional variants interact with...
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