Identification of genomic regions that confer susceptibility to or protection from major depressive disorder (MDD) via genomewide association.
Consent groups and participant set
Our goals are to develop a comprehensive understanding of the genomics of transcription in a population based unselected sample and to discover DNA and RNA biomarkers for major depressive disorder (MDD). This work is essential to developing a more complete understanding of the biological basis of...
The Jackson Heart Study (JHS) is a large, community-based, observational study whose participants were recruited from urban and rural areas of the three counties (Hinds, Madison and Rankin) that make up the Jackson, Mississippi, metropolitan statistical area (MSA). Participants were enrolled f...