Roseann E. Peterson

2 months ago | nature.com | Diego L. Rovaris |Sintia I. Belangero |Sheila T. Nagamatsu |Caroline M Nievergelt |Roseann E. Peterson |Laura Sloofman | +28 more

AbstractPsychiatric disorders are highly heritable and polygenic, influenced by environmental factors and often comorbid. Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) through consortium efforts have identified genetic risk loci and revealed the underlying biology of psychiatric disorders and traits. However, over 85% of psychiatric GWAS participants are of European ancestry, limiting the applicability of these findings to non-European populations.

Jan 4, 2024 | nature.com | Xiangrui Meng |Daniel F Levey |Dora Koller |Mark Adams |Miguel E. Rentería |Dan Stein | +42 more

AbstractMost genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of major depression (MD) have been conducted in samples of European ancestry. Here we report a multi-ancestry GWAS of MD, adding data from 21 cohorts with 88,316 MD cases and 902,757 controls to previously reported data. This analysis used a range of measures to define MD and included samples of African (36% of effective sample size), East Asian (26%) and South Asian (6%) ancestry and Hispanic/Latin American participants (32%).