Systematic exploration of a decade of publications on psychiatric genetics in Latin America

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Psychiatric disorders have a great impact in terms of mortality, morbidity, and disability across the lifespan. Considerable effort has been devoted to understanding their complex and heterogeneous genetic architecture, including diverse ancestry populations. Our aim was to review the psychiatric genetics research published with Latin American populations from 2010 to 2019, and classify it according to country of origin, type of analysis, source of funding, and other variables. We found that most publications came from Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Also, local funds are generally not large enough for genome-wide studies in Latin America, with the exception of Brazil and Mexico; larger studies are often done in collaboration with international partners, mostly funded by US agencies. In most of the larger studies, the participants are individuals of Latin American ancestry living in the United States, which limits the potential for exploring the complex gene-environment interaction. Family studies, traditionally strong in Latin America, represent about 30% of the total research publications. Scarce local resources for research in Latin America have probably been an important limitation for conducting bigger and more complex studies, contributing to the reduced representation of these populations in global psychiatric genetics studies. Increasing diversity must be a goal to improve generalizability and applicability in clinical settings.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:195

Enthalten in:

American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 195(2024), 3 vom: 17. Apr., Seite e32960

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Garro-Núñez, Diana [VerfasserIn]
Picado-Martínez, María Jesús [VerfasserIn]
Espinoza-Campos, Erika [VerfasserIn]
Ugalde-Araya, Daniela [VerfasserIn]
Macaya, Gabriel [VerfasserIn]
Raventós, Henriette [VerfasserIn]
Chavarría-Soley, Gabriela [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
LMIC
Latin American papers
Locus-specific
Psychiatric disorder
Review
Source of funding
Whole-genome sequencing

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Date Completed 11.03.2024

Date Revised 17.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ajmg.b.32960

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NLM363533877