{"id":89163,"date":"2019-04-02T18:04:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/depression-genes-debunked-analysis-dashes-highly-studied-link"},"modified":"2019-04-02T18:04:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:04:39","slug":"depression-genes-debunked-analysis-dashes-highly-studied-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/depression-genes-debunked-analysis-dashes-highly-studied-link","title":{"rendered":"Depression genes debunked: analysis dashes highly studied link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/depression-genes-debunked-analysis-dashes-highly-studied-link2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research out of the University of Colorado Boulder has dashed research into a potential link between certain genes and depression. The conclusion follows an analysis of both survey and genetic data from more than half a million people, which found that 18 candidate genes and random genes were equally associated with cases of depression.<\/p>\n<p>The new study, which was recently published in the <em> American Journal of Psychiatry<\/em>, looked at 18 highly-studied \u2018candidate genes,\u2019 each of which had previously been studied in association with depression a minimum of 10 times. The results were called \u201ca little bit stunning\u201d by study senior author Matthew Keller.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, these 18 candidate genes weren\u2019t associated with depression more than other randomly chosen genes. Past research into the genes that had indicated a link between the two were called false positives, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-04\/uoca-sd040219.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the researchers caution<\/a> that this doesn\u2019t mean depression isn\u2019t heritable.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/depression-genes-debunked-analysis-dashes-highly-studied-link-02571951\/\">https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/depression-genes-debunked-analysis...-02571951\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research out of the University of Colorado Boulder has dashed research into a potential link between certain genes and depression. The conclusion follows an analysis of both survey and genetic data from more than half a million people, which found that 18 candidate genes and random genes were equally associated with cases of depression. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89163","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}