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Genetic Signal Augmentation of Childhood-Onset and Treatment-Resistant Major Depression Reveals Distinct Biological Disorders

2026-03-03 psychiatry and clinical psychology Title + abstract only
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Major depression (MD) is a disorder class that exhibits substantial phenotypic and clinical heterogeneity, yet many large-scale molecular genetic investigations treat MD as a unitary outcome. Here, we applied Genomic Structural Equation Modeling (Genomic SEM) to characterize the genetic variation in two clinically relevant MD subtypes, childhood-onset (child-onset) and treatment-resistant MD, that are independent of the field-standard GWAS of MD in all its forms. In addition, we fit a complement...

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