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Record W4408133680 · doi:10.2147/prbm.s501273

The Interaction Between Family Functioning and the PCDH9 rs9540720 Polymorphism on Major Depressive Disorder in Chinese Freshmen

2025· article· en· W4408133680 on OpenAlex
Qin Yan, S. R. Hu, Sifang Niu, Weixin Zhang, Hao Sun, Ruixue Xu, Hanyun Li, Fuqin Mu, Ning Liu, JianLi Wang, Haiya Sun, Ying Zhang, Yan Liu

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Bibliographic record

VenuePsychology Research and Behavior Management · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicTryptophan and brain disorders
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMajor depressive disorderPsychologyPolymorphism (computer science)Depressive symptomsClinical psychologyPsychiatryMedicineGeneticsGenotypeGeneMoodBiologyCognition

Abstract

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Objective: Unhealthy family functioning and Protocadherin 9 ( PCDH9 ) have been recognized as potential environmental and genetic risk factors for major depressive disorder (MDD). This study examined the effects of the interaction between PCDH9 and family functioning on MDD in first-year university students. Methods: A cohort of 6985 first-year university students in China was established in 2018 and was followed for one year. The blood samples from 4866 of these participants (38.88% males, mean age:18.42) were genotyped. MDD was assessed using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview-3.0 (CIDI-3.0), while family functioning was evaluated with the Family Assessment Device (FAD). Logistic regression was used to examine the interaction of these two risk factors. Results: The one-year prevalence of MDD was 2.4%. Among first-year university students, the AA genotype of rs9540720 ( PCDH9 ) was a protective factor for MDD (OR=0.47, 95% CI: 0.23– 0.88, P =0.025). Affective responsiveness was a risk factor for MDD (OR=1.77, 95% CI: 1.13– 2.78, P =0.013). The interaction between AA genotype of rs9540720 and general functioning was statistically significant for MDD (OR=6.83, 95% CI: 1.16– 39.27, P =0.031), indicating that unhealthy family functioning may exacerbate the risk of MDD in carriers of this genotype. Conclusion: University students carrying the AA genotype of rs9540720( PCDH9 ) may have a higher probability of developing MDD when they have unhealthy family functioning. The etiological mechanism of depression in university students is explained from the perspective of gene-environment interaction and provides a theoretical basis for subsequent effective identification and screening of high-risk groups for depression in university students. Keywords: depression, family functioning, gene-environment interaction, PCDH9 rs9540720, freshman

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.634
Threshold uncertainty score0.646

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.053
GPT teacher head0.399
Teacher spread0.347 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it