The familial aggregation of atopic diseases and depression or anxiety in children.

Bronwyn H BrewC LundholmT GongH LarssonCatarina Almqvist

Published in: Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (2018)

Atopic diseases and depression or anxiety tend to occur together in families; therefore, when treating for 1 disease, the physician should consider comorbidity in both the individual and the individual's siblings. We did not find evidence to support a genetic explanation for comorbidity, and further exploration is needed to disentangle the environmental and epigenetic reasons for familial aggregation.

Keyphrases

sleep quality
depressive symptoms
early onset
primary care
dna methylation
young adults
gene expression
atopic dermatitis
genome wide
physical activity
intellectual disability
autism spectrum disorder
risk assessment
life cycle