| Title: | Olfactory genes affect major depression in highly educated, emotionally stable, lean women: a bridge between animal models and precision medicine |
| Journal: | Translational Psychiatry |
| Published: | 8 Apr 2024 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38589364/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-024-02867-2 |
| URL: | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-024-02867-2.pdf |
Publication 9948
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Abstract
Most current approaches to establish subgroups of depressed patients for precision medicine aim to rely on biomarkers that require highly specialized assessment. Our present aim was to stratify participants of the UK Biobank cohort based on three readily measurable common independent risk factors, and to investigate depression genomics in each group to discover common and separate biological etiology. Two-step cluster analysis was run separately in males (n = 149,879) and females (n = 174,572), with neuroticism (a tendency to experience negative emotions), body fat percentage, and years spent in education as input variables. Genome-wide association analyses were implemented within each of the resulting clusters, for the lifetime occurrence of either a depressive episode or recurrent depressive disorder as the outcome. Variant-based, gene-based, gene set-based, and tissue-specific gene expression test were applied. Phenotypically distinct clusters with high genetic intercorrelations in depression genomics were found. A two-cluster solution was the best model in each sex with some differences including the less important role of neuroticism in males. In females, in case of a protective pattern of low neuroticism, low body fat percentage, and high level of education, depression was associated with pathways related to olfactory function. While also in females but in a risk pattern of high neuroticism, high body fat percentage, and less years spent in education, depression showed association with complement system genes. Our results, on one hand, indicate that alteration of olfactory pathways, that can be paralleled to the well-known rodent depression models of olfactory bulbectomy, might be a novel target towards precision psychiatry in females with less other risk factors for depression. On the other hand, our results in multi-risk females may provide a special case of immunometabolic depression.</p>
11 Authors
- Nora Eszlari
- Gabor Hullam
- Zsofia Gal
- Dora Torok
- Tamas Nagy
- Andras Millinghoffer
- Daniel Baksa
- Xenia Gonda
- Peter Antal
- Gyorgy Bagdy
- Gabriella Juhasz
1 Application
| Application ID | Title |
|---|---|
| 1602 | Association between diet and depression |
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