Sri Lankan twin study finds one-third of variation in depressive symptoms is genetic; two-thirds is environmentally influenced - and symptoms are strongly associated with health-related quality of life

Sri Lankan twin study finds one-third of variation in depressive symptoms is genetic; two-thirds is environmentally influenced - and symptoms are strongly associated with health-related quality of life

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265421

Article Title: The aetiological relationship between depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life: A population-based twin study in Sri Lanka

Author Countries: U.K., Sri Lanka, Suriname

Funding: The Colombo Twin and Singleton study was funded in whole, or in part, by the Wellcome Trust [Grant number 093206/Z/10/Z], https://wellcome.org. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC-BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. FR, AS, SS and MH were involved in the second CoTaSS study as co-applicants of a Welcome trust funded grant. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.