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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Air pollution interacts with genetic risk to influence cortical networks implicated in depression.

Zhi Li, Hao Yan, Xiao Zhang, Shefali Shah, Guang Yang, Qiang Chen, Shizhong Han, Dai Zhang, Daniel R Weinberger, Weihua Yue and 1 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhi LiLieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD 21205.ORCID 0000-0001-5503-1734
Hao YanInstitute of Mental Health, Peking University Sixth Hospital, Beijing 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0376-9037
Xiao ZhangInstitute of Mental Health, Peking University Sixth Hospital, Beijing 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2932-5875
Shefali ShahLieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Guang YangLieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Qiang ChenLieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD 21205.ORCID 0000-0003-0373-4459
Shizhong HanLieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Dai ZhangInstitute of Mental Health, Peking University Sixth Hospital, Beijing 100191, China.
Daniel R WeinbergerLieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD 21205.ORCID 0000-0003-2409-2969
Weihua YueInstitute of Mental Health, Peking University Sixth Hospital, Beijing 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1201-8465
Hao Yang TanLieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD 21205; haoyang.tan@libd.org.ORCID 0000-0003-3561-2093
Lieber Institute for Brain Development · USPeking University · CNJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Effects of genes and childhood environment on brain mechanisms of schizophrenia rR01MH101053 · NIMH · LIEBER INSTITUTE, INC. · PI TAN, HAO YANG · 2013 to 2015
$583k
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH101053
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Air pollution is a reversible cause of significant global mortality and morbidity. Epidemiological evidence suggests associations between air pollution exposure and impaired cognition and increased risk for major depressive disorders. However, the neural bases of these associations have been unclear. Here, in healthy human subjects exposed to relatively high air pollution and controlling for socioeconomic, genomic, and other confounders, we examine across multiple levels of brain network function the extent to which particulate matter (PM

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AdultAir PollutantsAir PollutionAnxietyBrainDepressionEnvironmental ExposureHumansParticulate MatterRisk FactorsAir PollutantsParticulate Matterfine particulate mattergene–environment interactionmajor depressive disorderPM2.5polygenic risk

Identifiers

PMID34750260
PMCPMC8609632
OpenAlexW3211678880

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