Purpose: Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for preventable death, injury, and disease globally. Low sensitivity to the effects of alcohol is influenced by genes and predicts risk for harmful alcohol use and alcohol use disorder (AUD). Alcohol induces effects partly by modulation of gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors type A (GABARs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Depressive symptoms remaining after antidepressant treatment increase the risk of relapse and recurrence. We aimed to analyze the distribution and main drivers of remaining symptoms in patients with a major depressive episode.
Methods: Two independent samples of 8,229 and 5,926 patients from two large naturalistic studies were retrospectively analyzed.
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet
December 2024
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric disorder with an estimated heritability of around 70%. Although the largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies on AN identified independent risk-conferring loci for the disorder, the molecular mechanisms underlying the genetic basis of AN remain to be elucidated. To investigate AN, we performed transcriptome profiling in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 15 AN patients and 15 healthy controls.
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