2021
Polygenic risk for major depression is associated with lifetime suicide attempt in US soldiers independent of personal and parental history of major depression
Stein MB, Jain S, Campbell‐Sills L, Ware EB, Choi KW, He F, Ge T, Gelernter J, Smoller JW, Kessler RC, Ursano RJ. Polygenic risk for major depression is associated with lifetime suicide attempt in US soldiers independent of personal and parental history of major depression. American Journal Of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics 2021, 186: 469-475. PMID: 34288400, PMCID: PMC8692314, DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32868.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMajor depressive disorderLifetime suicide attemptsParental historySuicide attemptsMajor depressionMDD-PRSMultivariable modelLifetime historyMajor public health problemIncident suicide attemptsPolygenic riskPublic health problemUS Army soldiersRisk stratificationDepressive disorderPolygenic risk scoresRisk scoreSecond cohortHealth problemsCommon genetic variantsFirst cohortPersonal historyCohortGenetic variantsArmy soldiers
2018
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Epigenetic Measures, and Obesity in Youth
Kaufman J, Montalvo-Ortiz JL, Holbrook H, O'Loughlin K, Orr C, Kearney C, Yang BZ, Wang T, Zhao H, Althoff R, Garavan H, Gelernter J, Hudziak J. Adverse Childhood Experiences, Epigenetic Measures, and Obesity in Youth. The Journal Of Pediatrics 2018, 202: 150-156.e3. PMID: 30177354, PMCID: PMC6513669, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.06.051.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBody mass indexAdverse childhood experiencesMass indexIndices of obesityAssessment of obesityChildhood experiencesFuture longitudinal studiesObesity riskHealth burdenPsychiatric outcomesSecond cohortObesityNovel interventionsCohortEarly adversityCross-sectional measuresEpigenetic predictorsLongitudinal studySaliva DNAEpigenetic measuresWhole genome testingDiscovery sampleReplication sampleChildrenRisk