I think that if they both had an inherited predisposition, their depression would have been pointless in the story. It would not have been the romantic and life events they encountered, but just a chemical imbalance that makes anything a seeming cause, or trigger, of depression, as even Buzz Aldrin's walk on the Moon was to him.
So, in keeping with the romantic theme of Margot & Richie, we should believe that any depression suffered by either of them, was not just an inevitable chemical condition of their brains, but caused by external events and persons. Otherwise, The Royal Tenenbaums becomes just a kind of disease-of-the-month movie regarding Margot & Richie.
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