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The interaction of polygenic risk for depression and age on white blood cell count
2022-11-22
Abstract excerpt
Recent epidemiological studies suggest that polygenic risk for depression is associated with elevated white blood cell count, indicating shared genetic mechanisms between depression as a psychiatric disorder and the pro-inflammatory states often observed in clinical depression. However, the effects of aging on depressive symptoms and inflammation are not often fully appreciated in these studies, despite known vari...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 82f4ec66-1e2f-5110-b63b-00a8e19e1778
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.11.20.22282570
