Familial risk and heritability of depression by age at first diagnosis in Danish twins.

M K Wium-AndersenM Dalgaard VillumsenI K Wium-AndersenM B JørgensenJ B HjelmborgK ChristensenMerere Osler

Published in: Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica (2020)

Familial risk of depression, caused either by genes or shared environment, seemed to slightly decrease with age at diagnosis and an elevated concordance risk for monozygotic over same-sex dizygotic pairs suggested a genetic contribution to the development of depression.

Keyphrases

depressive symptoms
genome wide
early onset
gene expression
dna methylation