Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions.
David M. Howard, Mark J. Adams, Toni‐Kim Clarke…·Andrew Mark McIntosh
A meta-analysis of 807,553 people from 23andMe, UK Biobank and PGC finds 102 depression variants. 87 of them replicate in 1,306,354 individuals, and heritability is enriched in prefrontal brain regions.