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Clinical characteristics of major depression that predict risk of depression in relatives
K S Kendler et al. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1999 Apr.
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Kendler KS, Gardner CO, Prescott CA. Kendler KS, et al. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2000 Jan;57(1):94-5. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.57.1.94. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2000. PMID: 10632241 No abstract available.
Abstract
Background: Major depression (MD) is both clinically and etiologically heterogeneous. We attempt to relate clinical and etiologic heterogeneity by determining those features of MD that reflect a high familial liability to depressive illness.
Methods: Our sample, 3786 personally interviewed twin pairs from a population-based registry, contained 1765 people with a lifetime history of MD by DSM-III-R criteria, of whom 639 (36.2%) had affected co-twins. We examine, using Cox proportional hazard models, the clinical features of MD in affected twins that predicted the risk for MD in the co-twin. Control variables were zygosity, age at interview, and sex of the twin and co-twin.
Results: The best-fitting model contained 4 significant predictors: number of episodes, duration of longest episode, recurrent thoughts of death or suicide, and level of distress or impairment. These 4 clinical features were similarly predictive of the risk for MD in the co-twins of male and female twins and predicted risk of illness more strongly in monozygotic than in dizygotic twins. Variables that did not uniquely predict risk of MD in the co-twin included age at onset and number of depressive symptoms. For number of episodes, the best-fitting model indicated an inverted U-shaped function with greatest co-twin risk for MD with 7 to 9 lifetime episodes.
Conclusions: The clinical features of MD in epidemiologic samples can be meaningfully related to the familial vulnerability to illness. Familial MD is best characterized by intermediate levels of recurrence, long duration of episodes, high levels of impairment, and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide. These clinical features probably reflect a high genetic liability to depressive illness.
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- Corrections to 2 prior published articles.
Kendler KS, Gardner CO, Prescott CA. Kendler KS, et al. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2000 Jan;57(1):94-5. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.57.1.94. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2000. PMID: 10632241 No abstract available. - Age of onset and familial risk in major depression.
Weissman MM, Wickramaratne P. Weissman MM, et al. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2000 May;57(5):513-4. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.57.5.513. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2000. PMID: 10807494 No abstract available.
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