Open AccessShared and specific genetic risk factors for lifetime major depression, depressive symptoms and neuroticism in three population-based twin samples
Author(s) -
Kenneth S. Kendler,
C. O. Gardner,
Michael C. Neale,
S. H. Aggen,
Andrew C. Heath,
Lucía ColodroConde,
Baptiste CouvyDuchesne,
Enda M. Byrne,
Nicholas G. Martin,
Nathan A. Gillespie
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.857
H-Index - 209
eISSN - 1469-8978
pISSN - 0033-2917
DOI - 10.1017/s003329171800377x
Subject(s) - neuroticism , twin study , depression (economics) , psychology , population , cognitive vulnerability , genetic model , personality , clinical psychology , risk factor , big five personality traits , major depressive disorder , psychiatry , demography , depressive symptoms , cognition , heritability , medicine , genetics , biology , social psychology , macroeconomics , sociology , gene , economics
Vulnerability to depression can be measured in different ways. We here examine how genetic risk factors are inter-related for lifetime major depression (MD), self-report current depressive symptoms and the personality trait Neuroticism.