Journal article
Pharmacogenetics of antidepressant response: A polygenic approach
J García-González, KE Tansey, J Hauser, N Henigsberg, W Maier, O Mors, A Placentino, M Rietschel, D Souery, T Žagar, PM Czerski, B Jerman, HN Buttenschøn, TG Schulze, A Zobel, A Farmer, KJ Aitchison, I Craig, P McGuffin, M Giupponi Show all
Progress in Neuro Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry | Published : 2017
Abstract
Background Major depressive disorder (MDD) has a high personal and socio-economic burden and > 60% of patients fail to achieve remission with the first antidepressant. The biological mechanisms behind antidepressant response are only partially known but genetic factors play a relevant role. A combined predictor across genetic variants may be useful to investigate this complex trait. Methods Polygenic risk scores (PRS) were used to estimate multi-allelic contribution to: 1) antidepressant efficacy; 2) its overlap with MDD and schizophrenia. We constructed PRS and tested whether these predicted symptom improvement or remission from the GENDEP study (n = 736) to the STAR*D study (n = 1409) and ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the NIMH for access to data on the STAR*D study. We also thank the authors of previous publicatiOns in this dataset, and foremost, we thank the patients and their families who accepted to be enrolled in the study. Data and biomaterials were Obtained from the limited access datasets distributed from the NIH-supported "Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression" (STAR*D). The study was supported by NIMH Contract No. NO1MH90003 to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The ClinicalTrials.gov identifier is NCT00021528.