Maria Valkovskaya, Arsalan Hassan, Eirini Zartaloudi, Fahad Hussain, Muhammad Umar, Bakht Khizar, Inzemam Khattak, Shamshad Ahmed Gill, Shams-Ud-Din Ahmad Khan, Imtiaz Ahmad Dogar, Ali Burhan Mustafa, Moin Ahmed Ansari, Syed Qalb I Hyder, Muhammad Ali, Nilofar Ilyas, Parveen Channar, Nazish Mughal, Sumera Channa, Khalid Mufti, Ali Ahsan Mufti, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Sadia Shafiq, Muhammad Tariq, Muhammad Kamran Khan, Shahzad Tahir Chaudhry, Abdul Rashid Choudhary, Mian Nizam Ali, Gohar Ali, Ashfaq Hussain, Muhammad Rehman, Noman Ahmad, Saeed Farooq, Farooq Naeem, Tanveer Nasr, Glyn Lewis, James A Knowles, Muhammad Ayub, Karoline Kuchenbaecker
INTRODUCTION: Globally, 80% of the burdenof major depressive disorder (MDD) pertains to low- and middle-income countries. Research into genetic and environmental risk factors has the potential to uncover disease mechanisms that may contribute to better diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, yet has so far been largely limited to participants with European ancestry from high-income countries. The DIVERGE study was established to help overcome this gap and investigate genetic and environmental risk factors for MDD in Pakistan...
December 20, 2022: Psychiatric Genetics