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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2014 Dec 9;45(8):1709–1720. doi: 10.1017/S0033291714002839

Figure 1. Polygenic risk and depressive symptoms in the Health and Retirement Study, stratified by stressful life even.

Figure 1

Abbreviations: SLE = Stressful life event. Polygenic scores were derived in study participants using SNPs associated with major depressive disorder at the p < .40 level in the PGC MDD combined GWAS. Individuals were considered to have clinically relevant depressive symptoms if they scored ≥ 4 on the CES-D8.