Nick Martin's Contribution to GxE Research.
Twin Res Hum Genet
; 23(2): 131-134, 2020 Apr.
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ABSTRACT
The study and identification of genotype-environment interactions (GxE) has been a hot topic in the field of human genetics for several decades. Yet the extent to which GxE contributes to human behavior variability, and its mechanisms, remains largely unknown. Nick Martin has contributed important advances to the field of GxE for human behavior, which include methodological developments, novel analyses and reviews. Here, we will first review Nick's contributions to the GxE research, which started during his PhD and consistently appears in many of his over 1000 publications. Then, we recount a project that led to an article testing the diathesis-stress model for the origins of depression. In this publication, we observed the presence of an interaction between polygenic risk scores for depression (the risk in our 'genotype') and stressful life events (the experiences from our 'environment'), which provided the first empirical support of this model.
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Predisposição Genética para Doença
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Depressão
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Interação Gene-Ambiente
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Genética Humana
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Prognostic_studies
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Humans
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En
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2020
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Article