Major depressive disorder 2024 GWAS: African ancestry

Summary statistics are available for download from the GWAS Catalog.

Publication

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of major depression aids locus discovery, fine mapping, gene prioritization and causal inference.
Meng X, et al.
Nature Genetics. 2024 Feb;56(2):222-233. doi: 10.1038/s41588-023-01596-4.
PMID: 38177345

Phenotypes

• Major depressive disorder (MDD)
• Depression

Experiment summary

This study performed a GWAS of major depression from 29389 cases and 49999 controls of African ancestry.