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SUBMITTER: Horvath G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6810710 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Horvath Gregor G Knopik Valerie S VS Marceau Kristine K
Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence 20190422 1
This study used polygenic scoring (PGS) to test whether puberty-related genes were correlated with depressive symptoms, and whether there were indirect effects through pubertal maturation. The sample included 8,795 adolescents from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (measures of puberty drawn ages 8-17 years; of depressive symptoms at age 16.5 years). The PGS (derived from a genome-wide meta-analysis of later age at menarche) predicted boys' and girls' later pubertal timing, boy ...[more]