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Familial risk and heritability of depression by age at first diagnosis in Danish twins
- Source :
- Wium-Andersen, M K, Villumsen, M D, Wium-Andersen, I K, Jørgensen, M B, Hjelmborg, J B, Christensen, K & Osler, M 2020, ' Familial risk and heritability of depression by age at first diagnosis in Danish twins ', Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, vol. 142, no. 6, pp. 446-455 . https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.13238
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Objective: Familial and genetic factors seem to contribute to the development of depression but whether this varies with age at diagnosis remains unclear. We examined the influence of familial factors on the risk of depression by age at first diagnosis. Methods: We included 23 498 monozygotic and 39 540 same-sex dizygotic twins from the population-based Danish Twin Registry, followed from 1977 through 2011 in nationwide registers. We used time-to-event analyses accounting for censoring and competing risk of death to estimate cumulative incidence, casewise concordance, relative recurrence risk, and heritability of first depression by age using monozygotic and same-sex dizygotic twin pairs. Results: During follow-up, a total of 1545 twins were diagnosed with depression. For twins at age 35 or younger at first depression, heritability was estimated to be 24.8% (95% confidence interval [CI], 4.6–43.1%), whereas at age 90 it was 14.7% (95% CI, 3.1–26.3%). The relative recurrence risk was higher at younger ages: At age 35, the risk was 27.7-fold (95% CI, 20.0–35.5) and 6.9-fold (95% CI, 3.9–9.8) higher than the population risk for monozygotic and same-sex dizygotic twins, respectively, while the corresponding numbers were 3.0 (95% CI, 2.3–3.6) and 1.8 (95% CI, 1.3–2.2) at age 90. Heritability seemed similar for male and female twins. Conclusion: Familial risk of depression, caused either by genes or shared environment, seemed to slightly decrease with age at diagnosis and an elevated concordance risk for monozygotic over same-sex dizygotic pairs suggested a genetic contribution to the development of depression.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Denmark
Dizygotic twin
Concordance
Population
familial influence
heritability
Cohort Studies
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
twin cohort
Twins, Dizygotic
Humans
Medicine
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Cumulative incidence
Registries
education
Depression (differential diagnoses)
education.field_of_study
Depression
business.industry
Age Factors
Middle Aged
Heritability
Confidence interval
030227 psychiatry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Population Surveillance
depression
Female
Population Risk
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Demography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Wium-Andersen, M K, Villumsen, M D, Wium-Andersen, I K, Jørgensen, M B, Hjelmborg, J B, Christensen, K & Osler, M 2020, ' Familial risk and heritability of depression by age at first diagnosis in Danish twins ', Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, vol. 142, no. 6, pp. 446-455 . https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.13238
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8275a82c8685e5306da83535f893e70f