🚨New preprint from PGC SUI!! @pgcgenetics.bsky.social
GWAS meta-analyses of suicidal ideation, attempt, death, and behavior across >50 cohorts identify 77 loci (59 novel), implicate subcortical brain regions, and show suicidality phenotypes are genetically distinct.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
The PGC Suicide Working Group will provide a symposium at #WCPG2025 🇲🇽 covering our latest multi-ancestry GWAS and CNV meta-analyses, sex-specific meta-analyses, and GxEHR analyses. 🥳
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@sarahcolbert.bsky.social ‘s #SRS25 presentation: Genome-Wide Association Studies of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
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US military budget: $850 billion
US National Institutes of Health indirect costs: $9 billion
That they are so focused on cutting the budget of the latter says everything.
Happy to share the preprint of our GWAS of DSM-defined nicotine dependence! Thanks to all my coauthors for their hard work on this, especially co-first author Dongbing Lai & my fellow PGC SUD analysts for their many helpful suggestions.
Article screenshot of a genome-wide association study of major depression published in the journal Cell
1/n Our multi-ancestry #GWAS meta-analysis of major depression is now published in @cellpress.bsky.social.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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