Epidemiology and Heritability of Major Depressive Disorder, Stratified by Age of Onset, Sex, and Illness Course in Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS).

Epidemiology and Heritability of Major Depressive Disorder, Stratified by Age of Onset, Sex, and Illness Course in Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS).

The heritability of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) has been estimated at 37% based largely on twin studies that rely on contested assumptions. More recently, the heritability of MDD has been estimated on large populations from registries such as the Swedish, Finnish, and Chinese cohorts. Family-bas...

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Main Authors: Ana Maria Fernandez-Pujals, Mark James Adams, Pippa Thomson, Andrew G McKechanie, Douglas H R Blackwood, Blair H Smith, Anna F Dominiczak, Andrew D Morris, Keith Matthews, Archie Campbell, Pamela Linksted, Chris S Haley, Ian J Deary, David J Porteous, Donald J MacIntyre, Andrew M McIntosh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142197

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