The Future of Psychiatric Genetics
October 22, 2013
Dr. Patrick Sullivan final plenary session speaker World Congress for Psychiatric Genetics
Category: News
Evidence For Genetic Causes of Schizophrenia
October 10, 2013
Psychiatric News, October 9, 2013, reports on multi-national study stating new data adds to evidence for genetic causes of schizophrenia.
Anorexia nervosa sufferers to take part in world’s largest study
May 24, 2013
The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative (ANGI), the world's largest genetic investigation into anorexia nervosa, starts today in Queensland. Thousands of anorexia nervosa sufferers from Australia, the US, Sweden and Denmark will be recruited to participate in this study. CPG co-Director Professor Cynthia Bulik is the lead investigator on the study.
Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis
April 20, 2013
The authors aimed to identify specific variants underlying genetic effects shared between the five disorders in the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium: autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and schizophrenia.
CPG Director Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP co-authored an international study confirming multiple genes contribute to schizophrenia risk
April 10, 2013
By better understanding the molecular and biological mechanisms involved with schizophrenia, scientists hope to use this new genetic information to one day develop and design drugs that are more efficacious and have fewer side effects.
Five Major Mental Disorders Share Genetic Roots
March 1, 2013
Overlap Blurs Diagnostic Categories – NIH-funded Study
Genetic architectures of psychiatric disorders: the emerging picture and its implications
July 10, 2012
In this 2012 Nature Reviews Genetics article, CPG Director Patrick Sullivan discusses the genetics of nine cardinal psychiatric disorders (namely, Alzheimer's disease, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, alcohol dependence, anorexia nervosa, autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, nicotine dependence and schizophrenia).
Autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder may share common underlying factor
July 2, 2012
New research led by Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, Director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, points to an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders among individuals whose parents or siblings have been diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
The Psychiatric GWAS Consortium: Big Science Comes to Psychiatry
October 3, 2010
In a recent publication in Neuron, CPG Director Patrick Sullivan describes the Psychiatric Genome-Wide Association Consortium (PGC).