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Super piece about Naomi Wray - a major driver of progress in both the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC Consortium) & International Society of Psychiatric Genetics (ISPG) cell.com/neuron/fulltex…

🎉 Excited to share our newest paper led by Hanna Maria Kariis where we show lower antihypertensive medication adherence in ppl w #depression and the improvement of adherence after initiating antidepressant treatment using Estonian Biobank 🧠💊💔🧬

My first first author paper is now online with Biological Psychiatry! We compared two sets of MDD symptoms and found that current symptoms collected by PHQ9 are meaningfully different from lifetime symptoms collected through CIDI-SF. (1/n)

Our new paper in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, which included nearly 150,000 subjects, demonstrated that physical activity may be linked to a lower frequency of suicide attempts in individuals with mental disorders. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Amazing lead author Hilda Daníelsdóttir’s work assessing the link between adverse childhood experiences and risk of mental disorder diagnosis in adulthood using co-twin control analysis of 25 252 Swedish twins, just out in JAMA Psychiatry Unnur Valdimarsdóttir jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Our new paper is out on #ADHD genetic liability and all ICD-10 medical conditions in undiagnosed individuals 👇🎉 We found 80 conditions associated with ADHD genetic risk, emphasizing the importance of timely detection and management of ADHD symptoms! #comorbidity #mentalhealth

Very excited that the latest from the PGC Consortium PTSD group is now out in Nature Genetics! Headline: 95 loci implicated with PTSD, now in the rapid-discovery phase of psychiatric GWAS. nature.com/articles/s4158… Thread and ReadCube link to follow

#ADHD also genetically overlaps with medical conditions. This study identified 80 medical conditions associated with an ADHD-polygenic score 🧬🩺 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38563284/ Important work by Elis Haan, Kelli Lehto, Estonian Biobank & colleagues

The PGC MDD group (pictured at #WCPG2023 in Montreal) includes 200+ scientists from >15-20 countries 🌐 🧬 Our members range from distinguished faculty to junior investigators across epidemiology, statistical genetics, and clinical psychiatry/psychology. pgc.unc.edu/for-researcher…

"While much of Europe is obsessing over this year’s European Football Championships, many Estonians — whose team didn’t qualify — are absorbed in their own genomes." And they have pretty awesome genomes, I must say! Read the full story by Ewen Callaway: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Very glad to see the expansion of our Estonian delegation of behavioral genetics researchers from the usual 2 (me and Dr. Kaili Rimfeld ) to whopping 7 at #BGA2024 this year! Lots of great science using Estonian Biobank data was presented 📊🧬🧠 I hope this trend will continue! 📈

It is my great pleasure to host a fantastic line-up of speakers for the Psychiatric Genomics session at the GeneForum conference in Tartu this year geneforum.ee. There are still a few days left to register! Naomi Wray Katherine Musliner Wouter Peyrot