2006; Kim et al. 2007; Wichers et al. 2008; Nederhof et al. 2010; Carver et al. 2011; Grabe et al. 2012). However, only few studies focused in major depression http://www.selleckchem.com/products/pfi-2.html disorder during adolescence. Employing clinical data and biological samples for genetic

analysis gathered from the Mexican Adolescent Mental Health Survey, we tested the hypothesis that the risk for developing clinical depression Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical would be dependent on the individual and/or cumulative effect of psychosocial adversity factors but moderated by genetic variants; this outcome should be particularly evident for those individuals bearing the BDNF Met allele (i.e., Met/Met and Met/Val) and/or homozygous for the SLC6A4 short allele. Methods Initiated in 2005 under the auspices of the World Health Organization, the Mexican Adolescent Mental Health Survey (MAMHS) was designed to generate estimations of the prevalence of 20 major psychiatric disorders experienced during adolescence (for specific Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical details of the experimental design see Benjet et al. 2009a,b2009b). Participants were intended to be representative of the approximately 2 million youths between 12 and 17 years old, inhabitants of the metropolitan area of Mexico City. Briefly, 3005 individuals were interviewed face-to-face in their homes by lay personnel trained in the use of the computer-assisted World Mental Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview

for Adolescents (WMH-CIDI-A; Merikangas Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical et al. 2009). This comprehensive, fully structured interview was designed to assess the most prevalent psychiatric disorders according to the definitions and criteria of ICD-10 and Diagnostic Statistical Manual IV (DSM-IV). This study focused on MDD: the lifetime

diagnosis of major depression was attained from the report on depressive symptoms and based in DSM-IV criteria (American Psychiatric Association 1994). The clinical validity of CIDI in relation to standardized clinical assessments has Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical been discussed elsewhere (Haro et al. 2006). The clinical algorithm included in WMH-CIDI-A is able to differentiate between those cases whose depression is related with other disorders; therefore, in this study we apply Farnesyltransferase the diagnostic algorithm with a hierarchical rule, stating that if a disorder is better explained by another mental disorder, that “other” disorder is given hierarchy over the disorder of interest. Post-hoc analysis included also the nonhierarchical criteria in order to allow assessment of psychiatric comorbidity. In this study, the lifetime prevalence of MDD was in agreement with other published studies (Waraich et al. 2004; Essau and Chang 2009; Ferrari et al. 2013). Two hundred and forty-six adolescents that met these clinical criteria were also able to donate a mouthwash sample for genetic analyses. The group of noncases (i.e.