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SUBMITTER: Penner-Goeke S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6952745 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dialogues in clinical neuroscience 20191201 4
The risk for major depression is both genetically and environmentally determined. It has been proposed that epigenetic mechanisms could mediate the lasting increases in depression risk following exposure to adverse life events and provide a mechanistic framework within which genetic and environmental factors can be integrated. Epigenetics refers to processes affecting gene expression and translation that do not involve changes in the DNA sequence and include DNA methylation (DNAm) and microRNAs ...[more]