VCU, Swedish study finds genetics and environment equally contribute to major depression transmission
(World News Science)

Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017 Parent-to-offspring transmission of risk for major depression is the result of genetic factors and child-rearing experiences to an approximately equal degree, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Lund University in Sweden. The discovery is the result of the first large-scale adoption study of major depression. The study, `Sources of Parent-Offspring Resemblance for Major Depression in a National Swedish Extended Adoption Study,` published Dec. 13 in JAMA Psychiatry, a monthly, peer-reviewed medical journal produced by the American Medical Association. The finding that genetics and environment contribute equally to...