Neuro Stats Boot Camp in person. April 15-26, 2024, Salt Lake City. Application Portal Open Now neurostatsbootcamp.org

📢 Today we launch the @PGCGenomics Video Textbook! A structured training program in psychiatric genetics, analysis methods and software tools. Open access, do share widely. #WCPG2023 1/n

The PGC Video Textbook is at pgcanalytics.github.io/pgcvideotextbo…… - Chapters from introduction to psychiatric traits, through genetics to GWAS to Post GWAS analysis. - Software tutorials included. - Videos from 2 mins to 1 hour - Labels of basic / intermediate / advanced 2/n

In case you missed this yesterday at #WCPG2023 🇨🇦. Here are highlights of the activities of PGC_Africa diversity group so far. ISPG PGC Consortium Check our website for more insights 😊

The PGC Suicide Working group #PGCSUI at  #WCPG2023 last week in Montreal, Canada.

Decreasing the stigma and moral judgement associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviors is one steppingstone in suicide prevention.

Something big happened a few days ago. Industry leaders in the genomics fields (Regeneron, AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk and Roche) announced their collaboration with the US's largest black medical school, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, to establish what might become the UK

Congratulations to Seonggyun Han who successfully defended his PhD thesis at University of Utah yesterday. His latest work is out now molecularpsychiatry in which he identifies risk loci in suicide death. nature.com/articles/s4138…

Training in Advanced Statistical Methods in Neuroimaging and Genetics, Salt Lake City, April 15-26. Due to increased funding, 2024 tuition drop to $2250. Priority applications Nov 1, 2023. Late applications Dec 1, 2023. neurostatsbootcamp.org

Fantastic CTSI trainee talks at the 5th annual CTSI Research Trainee Symposium. So impressed with the quality of the work presented! University of Utah Health Huntsman Mental Health Institute Utah CTSI

New paper by Andy Dahl and I on phenotype integration improving GWAS power while preserving specificity is now out in Nature Genetics 🎉 thank you all collaborators and reviewers! nature.com/articles/s4158…

A new pre-print: NREM sleep in schizophrenia - some key points described in thread below, w/ a focus on patient heterogeneity. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

When you have tenure and don't care what you publish or where

In between conferences in CSHL

New pre-print from the PGC Consortium #Depression Group: Multi-ancestry GWAS of depression with 685,000 cases identifies 697 independent associations, implicating known & novel drug targets. 🔗 medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

A study led by AlexanderSHatoum found evidence for a generalized addiction risk factor that identified 19 risk variants including variants involved in dopamine regulation, along with many substance-specific variants involving drug metabolism and receptors. go.nature.com/3N3M2v7

We have multiple faculty job openings again this year in the Dept of Human Genetics University of Utah (job ad links in the thread) please share and apply and join us for some groundbreaking science in the mountain west

Looking for a cool #WCPG2024 symposium to attend this afternoon? Join this amazing lineup of speakers to hear the latest about #suicide genomics. After that, Brenda Cabrera Mendoza will bring together attendees and speakers to discuss the implications of the findings presented.

Concerns about genetic risk testing for opioid use disorder - The Lancet Psychiatry thelancet.com/journals/lanps… #ispgnet

"What Are the Genetic Building Blocks of Alcohol-Related Behaviors?" commenting on the recent article "Genetic Heterogeneity Across Dimensions of Alcohol Use Behaviors" led by Dr. Jeanne Savage is now online. Editorial: bit.ly/3ArctYN Article: bit.ly/3YNBs1S