Tapping crowd-sourced data unearths a trove of depression genes

Monday, August 1, 2016 - 11:41 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have discovered 15 genome sites — the first ever — linked to depression in people of European ancestry. Many of these regions of depression-linked genetic variation turn out to be involved in regulating gene expression and the birth of new neurons in the developing brain. But – in a twist – the researchers didn’t […]

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