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Patterns of stressful life events and polygenic scores for five mental disorders and neuroticism among adults with depression.
ABSTRACT
The dominant ('general') version of the diathesis-stress theory of depression views stressors and genetic vulnerability as independent risks. In the Australian Genetics of Depression Study (N = 14,146; 75% female), we tested whether polygenic scores (PGS) for major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, ADHD, and neuroticism were associated with reported exposure to 32 childhood, past-year, lifetime, and accumulated stressful life events (SLEs). In false discovery rate-corrected models, the clearest PGS-SLE relationships were for the ADHD- and depression-PGSs, and to a lesser extent, the anxiety- and schizophrenia-PGSs. We describe the associations for childhood and accumulated SLEs, and the 2-3 strongest past-year/lifetime SLE associations. Higher ADHD-PGS was associated with all childhood SLEs (emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect; ORs = 1.09-1.14; p's < 1.3 × 10 ), more accumulated SLEs, and reported exposure to sudden violent death (OR = 1.23; p = 3.6 × 10 ), legal troubles (OR = 1.15; p = 0.003), and sudden accidental death (OR = 1.14; p = 0.006). Higher depression-PGS was associated with all childhood SLEs (ORs = 1.07-1.12; p's < 0.013), more accumulated SLEs, and severe human suffering (OR = 1.17; p = 0.003), assault with a weapon (OR = 1.12; p = 0.003), and living in unpleasant surroundings (OR = 1.11; p = 0.001). Higher anxiety-PGS was associated with childhood emotional abuse (OR = 1.08; p = 1.6 × 10 ), more accumulated SLEs, and serious accident (OR = 1.23; p = 0.004), physical assault (OR = 1.08; p = 2.2 × 10 ), and transportation accident (OR = 1.07; p = 0.001). Higher schizophrenia-PGS was associated with all childhood SLEs (ORs = 1.12-1.19; p's < 9.3 ), more accumulated SLEs, and severe human suffering (OR = 1.16; p = 0.003). Higher neuroticism-PGS was associated with living in unpleasant surroundings (OR = 1.09; p = 0.007) and major financial troubles (OR = 1.06; p = 0.014). A reversed pattern was seen for the bipolar-PGS, with lower odds of reported physical assault (OR = 0.95; p = 0.014), major financial troubles (OR = 0.93; p = 0.004), and living in unpleasant surroundings (OR = 0.92; p = 0.007). Genetic risk for several mental disorders influences reported exposure to SLEs among adults with moderately severe, recurrent depression. Our findings emphasise that stressors and diatheses are inter-dependent and challenge diagnosis and subtyping (e.g., reactive/endogenous) based on life events.
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DATE PUBLISHED
2024 Apr 04
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
received 2023/06/06
accepted 2024/02/20
revised 2024/02/08
medline 2024/04/05 00:42
pubmed 2024/04/05 00:42
entrez 2024/04/04 23:29
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Crouse JJ Crouse Jacob J JJ Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Park SH Park Shin Ho SH Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Byrne EM Byrne Enda M EM Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Mitchell BL Mitchell Brittany L BL Mental Health and Neuroscience Program, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Scott J Scott Jan J Université de Paris, Paris, France.
Medland SE Medland Sarah E SE Mental Health and Neuroscience Program, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Lin T Lin Tian T Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Wray NR Wray Naomi R NR Oxford Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG Mental Health and Neuroscience Program, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Hickie IB Hickie Ian B IB Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. ian.hickie@sydney.edu.au.
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TITLE: Molecular psychiatry
ISOABBREVIATION: Mol Psychiatry
YEAR: 2024
MONTH: Apr
DAY: 04
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CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1476-5578
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Mol Psychiatry
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 1359-4184
NLMUNIQUEID: 9607835
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GNT2016346 Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1086683 Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
GNT2008196 Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1086683 Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1086683 Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1086683 Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1086683 Department of Health | National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
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