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Publication
Genome-wide association study of depression phenotypes in UK Biobank identifies variants in excitatory synaptic pathways.
Howard DM, et al.
Nature Communications. 2018 Apr 16;9(1):1470. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03819-3.
PMID: 29662059
Phenotypes
- Broad depression
- Probable major depressive disorder (MDD)
- ICD-9/ICD-10-coded MDD
Experiment summary
This study analyzed genome-wide associations for three depression-related phenotypes in UK Biobank and identified loci implicating excitatory synaptic pathways using 322580 total participants of European ancestry.
Dataset ID
Howard2018_MDD_EU