The role of sex in genetic association studies of depression

性别在抑郁症遗传关联研究中的作用

• 批准号: 10417937
• 负责人: Sharon Marie Lutz
• 金额: $ 44.45万
• 依托单位: HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2027-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10417937
• 关键词: 18 year old; Adult; Affect; Age; Area; Biological; Communities; Complex; Computer software; Data; Development; Disease; Disease-Free Survival; Etiology; Event; Female; Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Genes; Genetic; Goals; Grant; Heterogeneity; Lead; Linkage Disequilibrium; Machine Learning; Major Depressive Disorder; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Mental disorders; Methods; Modeling; Morbidity - disease rate; Outcome; Participant; Pharmacotherapy; Phenotype; Public Health; Research Personnel; Resources; Role; Sex Differences; Single Nucleotide Polymorphism; Statistical Methods; Structure; Testing; Time; Validation; Woman; Work; addiction; biobank; clinical phenotype; deep learning; disability; disorder risk; genetic association; genetic variant; genome wide association study; improved; lifetime risk; male; men; method development; novel; novel strategies; personalized medicine; polygenic risk score; population based; population health; semiparametric; sex; simulation; statistics; user friendly software

Project Abstract Depression is the most common mental illness in the U.S. affecting nearly 40 million adults age 18 years and older. Women are more likely to be affected by depression than men. Depression has both genetic and environmental influences. Depression is a polygenic disorder (due to the combined effects of many genetic variants) and depression rates differ by sex. The relationship between genes and depression is complex and influenced by sex. Thus, understanding the shared genetic basis of sex-specific differences for depression has great potential to lead to new biological understanding of the etiology of depression in females compared to males and to promote the development of novel and more effective pharmacotherapies. The underlying goal of this proposal is to develop and evaluate methods to examine the role of sex in genetic association studies of depression. These methods will be applied to the UK Biobank. The UK Biobank is one of the largest biobanks available at present and represents an extensive resource with both genetic data and depression phenotypes (approximately 474,000 participants). The Mass General Brigham Biobank (approximately 33,000 participants) will be used for validation and assessment of the robustness of the approaches. The grant focuses on methods development applied to depression and the role of sex in genetic association studies of depression; however, our ultimate goal is to develop approaches that are applicable to a broad range of mental health and addiction phenotypes. We will also create publicly available software packages to implement these new approaches, so that they will be broadly accessible to the scientific community.

项目摘要 抑郁症是美国最常见的精神疾病，影响着近4000万18岁及以上的成年人 年纪更大了。女性比男性更容易受到抑郁症的影响。抑郁症既有遗传性的，也有 环境影响。抑郁症是一种多基因疾病(由于许多遗传因素的共同作用 变种)和抑郁率因性别而不同。基因和抑郁症之间的关系是复杂的 受性爱的影响。因此，了解抑郁症的性别差异的共同遗传基础 巨大的潜力导致对女性抑郁症病因的新的生物学理解 并促进开发新的、更有效的药物疗法。 这项提案的基本目标是开发和评估检查性别在遗传中的作用的方法。 抑郁症的关联性研究。这些方法将应用于英国生物库。英国生物库是 目前可用的最大生物库，代表着广泛的资源，既有遗传数据，也有 抑郁症表型(约474,000名参与者)。弥撒将军Brigham Biobank (约33,000名参与者)将用于验证和评估 接近了。 这笔赠款主要用于抑郁症的方法开发和性别在基因关联中的作用。 对抑郁症的研究；然而，我们的最终目标是开发适用于广泛范围的方法 心理健康和成瘾表型。我们还将创建公开可用的软件包，以 实施这些新方法，以便科学界能够广泛接触到这些方法。