{"id":225083,"date":"2025-11-14T01:24:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/family-history-key-to-predicting-antidepressant-response"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:24:47","slug":"family-history-key-to-predicting-antidepressant-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/family-history-key-to-predicting-antidepressant-response","title":{"rendered":"Family history key to predicting antidepressant response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/family-history-key-to-predicting-antidepressant-response2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study from Queen Mary University of London shows that a family\u2019s experience with certain medicines could help doctors predict how future generations will respond to the same drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that people were almost five times more likely to have a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/genetic+difference\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genetic difference<\/a> affecting how they process antidepressants if both they and a parent had stopped taking the same medication early.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43856-025-01156-3\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> in <i>Communications Medicine<\/i>, the study looked at 600 British, Bangladeshi and Pakistani families from the Genes and Health Project\u2014one of the world\u2019s largest community genetics studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from Queen Mary University of London shows that a family\u2019s experience with certain medicines could help doctors predict how future generations will respond to the same drugs. The researchers found that people were almost five times more likely to have a genetic difference affecting how they process antidepressants if both they and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}