Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20177407›Full record

ArticleMolecular psychiatry2010

Genetic repositories for the study of major psychiatric conditions: what do we know about ethnic minorities' genetic vulnerability?

M A Oquendo, G Canino, T Lehner, J Licinio

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Molecular psychiatry, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Common genetic influences on depression, alcohol, and substance use disorders in Mexican-American families.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2011
    Article
  5. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

M A OquendoNew York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. mao4@columbia.edu
G Canino
T Lehner
J Licinio

Funding

PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL PREDICTORS OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR IN MDER01MH048514 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI OQUENDO, MARIA A · 1992 to 2013
$3.6M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH048514
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In spite of considerable efforts, no genes of major effect have been found across an entire diagnostic category in psychiatry. Possible reasons for this may include difficulties in defining the phenotype, the complex relationship between genotype and gene expression and population stratification. This last problem has often been managed by restricting genetic sampling to only one ethnic group. An unintended consequence of using this strategy is that the major repositories of genetic material for the study of psychiatric conditions in the United States suffer from a paucity of genetic samples from non-Caucasian groups. Thus, these groups are being relatively understudied in terms of the genetic antecedents to psychiatric disease. The authors provide solutions including the need to augment the representation of African-American, Latino and Asian-Americans among research participants; a more nuanced approach to identify ancestry; and the development of analytic and genetic strategies to handle the issue of ethnic heterogeneity in samples.

Indexed as

EthnicityGenetic HeterogeneityGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansMental DisordersNational Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)United States

Identifiers

PMID20177407

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.