Much Touted 'Depression Risk Gene' May Not Add To Risk After All

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 21:35 in Health & Medicine

Stressful life events are strongly associated with a person's risk for major depression, but a certain gene variation long thought to increase risk in conjunction with stressful life events actually may have no effect.

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