ArticleBrain, behavior, and immunity2020
Genetic liability to major depression and risk of childhood asthma.
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- Assessing the comorbidity between asthma and depression through polygenic risk scoring and time-to-event models.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- Longitudinally investigating patterns of maternal psychological distress in a South African birth cohort.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Elucidation and application of the neuroimmune axis between depression and autoimmune diseases: A genome wide and cohort study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Depression in Childhood Asthma vs. Adult-Onset Asthma: A Cross-Sectional Study from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Paediatric asthma and non-allergic comorbidities: A review of current risk and proposed mechanisms.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2022Review
- Examining the Moderating Effect of Sex on the Association Between Asthma and Age of Onset in Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia.Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison PsychiatryArticle
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Abstract
objectiveMajor depression and asthma frequently co-occur, suggesting shared genetic vulnerability between these two disorders. We aimed to determine whether a higher genetic liability to major depression was associated with increased childhood asthma risk, and if so, whether such an association differed by sex of the child.
methodsWe conducted a population-based cohort study comprising 16,687 singletons born between 1991 and 2005 in Denmark. We calculated the polygenic risk score (PRS) for major depression as a measure of genetic liability based on the summary statistics from the Major Depressive Disorder Psychiatric Genomics Consortium collaboration. The outcome was incident asthma from age 5 to 15 years, identified from the Danish National Patient Registry and the Danish National Prescription Registry. Stratified Cox regression was used to analyze the data.
resultsGreater genetic liability to major depression was associated with an increased asthma risk with a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.06 (95% CI: 1.01-1.10) per standard deviation increase in PRS. Children in the highest major depression PRS quartile had a HR for asthma of 1.20 (95% CI: 1.06-1.36), compared with children in the lowest quartile. However, major depression PRS explained only 0.03% of asthma variance (Pseudo-R
conclusionOur results suggest a shared genetic contribution to major depression and childhood asthma, and there is no evidence of a sex-specific difference in the association.
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