Variant Gene Disease Risk Allele Score vda Association Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Our results suggest that the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism is of greater importance in the development of MDD in men than in women. 18852698

2010

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene polymorphism (Val66Met) and citalopram response in major depressive disorder. 16979146

2006

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Serum BDNF levels, but not plasma levels of HVA or MHPG, and BDNF Val66Met polymorphism are related to the mirtazapine response in MDD. 22883353

2012

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE The BDNF polymorphism was associated with atrophy of the PFC in MDD patients, which suggests that the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism may play an important role in the pathogenesis of early stages of MDD. 26078197

2015

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Common genetic variants, such as the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) Val/66/Met polymorphism (rs6265), are known to interact with environmental factors such as early adversity to increase the risk of subsequent major depression. 22844024

2012

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Brain derived neurotrophic factor gene polymorphism (Val66Met) and short-term antidepressant response in major depressive disorder. 20674983

2010

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Association of BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism and Brain BDNF Levels with Major Depression and Suicide. 29432620

2018

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Significant interactions between the Val66Met polymorphism and 3 clinical characteristics - age at onset (p = 0.03), MDD duration (p = 0.04), and number of previous MDE (p = 0.04) - were evidenced for plasma BDNF levels. 28848102

2017

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Haplotype analysis of marker combination rs988748-(GT)n-rs6265 produced nominally significant associations for all investigated phenotypes (global p values: MDD p = .00006, BPAD p = .0057, schizophrenia p = .016). 16005437

2005

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Our results do not support the hypothesis that the Val66Met promoter polymorphism in the BDNF gene influences the therapeutic response to mirtazapine in Korean MDD patients. 19493959

2010

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE These results suggest that the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism is not related to the development of MDD but related to clinical features of MDD in a Japanese population. 17510948

2007

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE In the current study, we examined BDNF polymorphisms (G-712A, C270T and Val66Met) in 202 patients with MD and 323 patients with schizophrenia. 21129438

2011

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE The current study looked at a population of patients with major depressive disorder (N = 107) to examine the association between the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism, resting state EEG alpha power, and depression severity. 23733090

2013

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Reduced fractional anisotropy in the uncinate fasciculus in patients with major depression carrying the met-allele of the Val66Met brain-derived neurotrophic factor genotype. 22585743

2012

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Recent meta-analyses point towards a pathogenic role of the Val66Met variant of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in major depressive disorder, specifically in males. 22033217

2012

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE The aim of our study was to evaluate the association of regional gray matter (GM) volume within the hippocampus and other unpredicted regions at the whole-brain level with the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism in MDD patients with melancholic features and their impact on treatment outcome. 23165919

2013

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE The pattern of low BDNF and high inflammation in MDD may be influenced by the Val66Met polymorphism. 28656803

2018

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Under a dominant model, we observed a potential association between the GSK3B rs6782799 and MDD (P=0.07), a significant three-way interaction among BDNF rs6265, GSK3B rs6782799, and negative life events (corrected P-value, 0.011-0.012; cross-validation consistency, 7; prediction error, 0.4349). 20682308

2010

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE The relationship was investigated between brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) concentrations, a <i>BDNF</i> polymorphism (196G>A), and the response to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) among Chinese patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). 31308724

2019

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE The gene-environment combination of PRKCG rs3745406 C allele, BDNF rs6265 G allele and high level of negative life events (C-G-HN) was significantly associated with MDD (OR, 5.97; 95% CI, 2.71-13.15). 26921055

2016

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE We investigated cross-sectionally in 1,435 individuals with lifetime MDD the impact of childhood abuse (CA) and recent life events on serum BDNF levels and assessed whether the impact of these events was moderated by the BDNF Val(66)Met polymorphism. 20703451

2011

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE To examine whether the polymorphisms of BDNF (rs6265) and NTRK2 (rs1387923, rs2769605 and rs1565445) genes confer risk for TRD in major depressive disorder (MDD), a total of 948 MDD patients were recruited in a 12-week, multicenter, prospective longitudinal study. 23137999

2013

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE The association of MDD with genetic polymorphisms, such as Val66Met (rs6265), in the brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), have been reported in many studies and the results were conflicting. 23184535

2013

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Three polymorphisms in the BDNF gene (rs7103411, rs6265 (Val66Met) and rs7124442) were genotyped in 324 patients with MDD and 470 healthy controls. 22965830

2013

dbSNP: rs6265
rs6265
CUI: C1269683
Disease: Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Taken together, we did not detect any plausible evidence regarding Val66Met polymorphism in the BDNF gene contributing to a risk of MDD. 29387021

2017