A behavioral genetic investigation of conceptualizations of resilience in a female twin sample.

Chelsea K SawyersErin D KurtzChristina SheerinHermine H MaesKenneth S KendlerAnanda B Amstadter

Published in: Depression and anxiety (2020)

Findings of a higher genetic correlation between the outcome-based resilience measure and MDD compared to the trait-based measure and MDD suggest gene-finding efforts may benefit from considering the multifaceted nature of resilience and that resilience is best understood as both a phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous construct.

Keyphrases

climate change
genome wide
social support
major depressive disorder
copy number
dna methylation
gene expression
quality improvement
bipolar disorder
transcription factor