Major depressive disorder 2021 GWAS: East Asian ancestry

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Publication

The Genetic Architecture of Depression in Individuals of East Asian Ancestry: A Genome-Wide Association Study.
Giannakopoulou O, et al.
JAMA Psychiatry. 2021 Nov 1;78(11):1258-1269. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.2099.
PMID: 34586374

Phenotypes

  • Major depression (clinical and symptom-based definitions)

Experiment summary

This study meta-analyzed GWAS data from 13893 cases and 155912 controls of East Asian ancestry to investigate the genetics of depression, identifying two novel loci and showing limited transferability of previously reported European-ancestry loci.

Dataset ID
Giannakopoulou2021_MDD_EA