Article
Genome-wide association study of depression phenotypes in UK Biobank (n = 322,580) identifies the enrichment of variants in excitatory synaptic pathways
2017-07-27
Abstract excerpt
Depression is a polygenic trait that causes extensive periods of disability and increases the risk of suicide, a leading cause of death in young people. Previous genetic studies have identified a number of common risk variants which have increased in number in line with increasing sample sizes. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in the largest single population-based cohort to date, UK Biobank. Th...
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- Literature Corpus work
- adc85e70-ee3e-5d6a-9e9d-478678f98f21
- DOI
- 10.1101/168732
