When all subjects were grouped based on family history of mental illness, there was a statistically significant association of CRHR1 rs242941 with family history regardless of depression status (P = 0.043).
To investigate the possible relationship between genetic risk factors and depression in AD, we assessed genetic polymorphisms reported to be associated with depression (MAOA VNTR, ACE 288bp Insertion/ Deletion, 5HTTLPR, COMT Val158Met, BDNF Val66Met, TPH1 A218C, HTR2A T102C, P2RX7 Q460R, FKBP5 rs1360780 and CRHR1 rs242941) in a cross-sectional study on 246 AD patients with or without clinically significant major depressive disorder (MDD) according to DSM-IV.
Thus, while the characteristics of the suicide female attempters remained undetermined, the male suicidal offspring had increased depression intensity related to main genetic effects by exonic SNP rs12936511 and homozygous non-CGC haplotypes.
To comprehensively map the genetic variation in CRHR1 in relation to suicidality and depression, as a follow-up to our initial report on SNP rs4792887, we analyzed six new single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), in an extended sample of family trios (n = 672) with suicide attempter offspring, by using family-based association tests.