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Anna Docherty

@annadocherty.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, University of Utah Statistical genetics, psychiatric genetics, bioethics Chair, PGC Suicide Working Group

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Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) @pgcgenetics.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
🧵 New publication from the PGC Anxiety Working Group. Our GWAS meta-analysis of anxiety disorders is now published in @natgenet.nature.com! 🔗: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Anna Docherty @annadocherty.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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. 🥳 @lcstoshio.bsky.social @andreyshabalin.bsky.social @sarahcolbert.bsky.social @caina89.bsky.social
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American Foundation for Suicide Prevention @afspnational.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
We recently launched The Upright to address the critical gaps in access, effectiveness, and cultural relevance surrounding mental health, suicide prevention, and the lived experience of communities. Learn more about The Upright and join us for The Summit: www.addevent.com/event/MR2473...
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Joni Coleman @jonicoleman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Fantastic to see Maria Koromina's great work out in @natneuro.nature.com! 1. A deep look at potential "causal" genetic signals in bipolar disorder 2. A systematic exploration of the analytical choices involved in fine-mapping meta-analysis 1/4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Fine-mapping genomic loci refines bipolar disorder risk genes - Nature Neuroscience
This study used fine-mapping to analyze genetic regions associated with bipolar disorder, identifying specific risk genes and providing new insights into the biology of the condition that may guide fu...
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Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D. @friesgabriel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Latin America has experienced an increase in suicide rate, contrasting with a global decline. We review possible reasons for this here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by Dr. Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza and @renatopolimanti.bsky.social, 1st publication from the LAGC Suicide Working Group.
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We're excited to introduce Tractor-Mix, our new method for GWAS in admixed cohorts with relatedness, led by the fantastic @doubletaotan.bsky.social! Read the full preprint here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks to all our amazing collaborators who helped make this work possible!
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xyxxy.bsky.social @xyxxy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The OpenMx Team is pleased to announce the release of OpenMx version 2.22!: openmx.ssri.psu.edu/node/4942 The big news in this release relates to GREML (Genomic-relatedness-matrix REstricted Maximum-Likelihood): 2 bug-fixes, a patched memory leak, and 2 new features! 1/n
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OpenMx 2.22 released! | OpenMx
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Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Postdoc opportunity! At National Genomics Infrastructure in Uppsala we're looking for a postdoc in genomics R&D. Cutting-edge methods dev in an excellent, international environment at the junction between academia and infrastructure. Deadline May 23! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Postdoctoral Researcher, NGI Uppsala, SNP&SEQ Technology Platform - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral Researcher, NGI Uppsala, SNP&SEQ Technology Platform, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University
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Aysu Okbay @aysuo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
PGI Repository v2.0 preprint out! A 🧵 on the main results and updates @robel-alemu.bsky.social @paturley.bsky.social @alextisyoung.bsky.social
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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Asked GPT to (impossibly) "write a Bluesky post 100% guaranteed to go viral" Its suggestion: "just saw a guy confidently order a "croissantini" at the coffee shop and the barista nodded like that was a normal word. i live in a simulation." Then I said "Make it more viral" and things got weird... 🧵
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Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New preprint! My (now former) postdoc @kvastad.bsky.social led this integration of GWAS and spatial transcriptomics (ST) data to identify tissue structures with enrichment of disease-implicated genes = likely causal drivers of disease biology. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Spatial transcriptomics and genetically implicated genes identify putative causal tissue structures for complex traits
Spatially resolved transcriptomics is transforming our understanding of cellular and molecular diversity of tissues. Here, to identify tissue structures that are enriched for putatively causal disease...
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Elizabeth F Mattera @lizmattera.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
@sarahcolbert.bsky.social ‘s #SRS25 presentation: Genome-Wide Association Studies of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium So incredible!
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Marios Georgakis @mariosgeorgakis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Massive multi-ancestry GWAS resource for 1,167 clinical traits & diseases in 6 global biobanks (n=1,789,365) 👉29,139 locus-trait pairs 👉2,624 non-overlapping loci across the genome 👉associated with 6 traits each (median) 👉colocalization across traits for 72% of loci [1/3]
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HiTOP @hitop-system.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Please consider helping @kathleenwreardon.bsky.social with this project—and sharing it widely—to improve how we approach teaching HiTOP for a variety of groups and end users csufull.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Amanda Mejia @mandymejia.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Excited to be in Salt Lake City for our 2-week NIH training course in Advanced Statistics in Neuroimaging & Genetics! Today-tomorrow I'm teaching longitudinal & Bayesian modeling in neuroimaging to a stellar group of students. medicine.utah.edu/psychiatry/a...
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Advanced Statistical Methods in Neuroimaging and Genetics
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Fiona Hagenbeek @fionahagenbeek.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Our new study in Molecular Psychiatry, in 1528 children and their parents (@ntrbiopsy.bsky.social) shows that indirect genetic effects—where parental genetics shape offspring traits via environmental influences (genetic nurture)—impact DNA methylation of children. doi.org/10.1038/s413... (1/5)
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Intergenerational transmission of complex traits and the offspring methylome - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Intergenerational transmission of complex traits and the offspring methylome
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Tim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 08/02/2025
On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH
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International Society of Psychiatric Genetics @ispg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Reminder: We hope you will join us TODAY for a timely and important Member’s Meetup regarding the federal changes and updates affecting the NIH. 📅 Wednesday, January 29 🕗 3 PM EST 📍 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #psychiatry #psychiatricgenetics
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International Society of Psychiatric Genetics @ispg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Unsure how recent changes in U.S. policy regarding the NIH will impact the psychiatric genetics world? You're not alone. Join ISPG for a Member’s Meetup for community discussion and support: 📅 Wednesday, January 29 🕗 3 PM EST 📍 Pre-Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Na Cai @caina89.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
📢 Quantgen friends: We will continue to accept applications for the GRC on Quantgen in Feb 2025 till 26 Jan or when we are full, so there is still time to put in an application and join us! 😁 Check out our latest program and apply now! www.grc.org/quantitative...
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2025 Quantitative Genetics and Genomics Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Quantitative Genetics and Genomics will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) @pgcgenetics.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
1/n Our multi-ancestry #GWAS meta-analysis of major depression is now published in @cellpress.bsky.social. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... A thread 🧵:
Article screenshot of a genome-wide association study of major depression published in the journal Cell
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 08/12/2024
📚 Bias in Faculty Promotions A @natureportfolio.bsky.social study of 1,571 staff at US universities revealed underrepresented minorities face tougher standards. They received 7% more negative votes & their research was judged more harshly. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪 #HigherEd
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Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions - Nature Human Behaviour
Masters-Waage et al. report that underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in the USA face barriers in the promotion and tenure process, receiving more negative votes and fewer unanimous positive decisi...
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Evan Giangrande @evangiangrande.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🚨Call for submissions!🚨 We're organizing a special issue on "Behavioral Genetics as a Public Science"🧬🌍 Relevant topics include: -Public outreach and education -(Mis)use and (mis)interpretations of BG research -Ethical, legal, and social issues tinyurl.com/bgpublicscie...
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Call for Submissions: Behavior Genetics Special Issue on Public Science
Call for Submissions: Behavioral Genetics as a Public Science: Impacts and Implications Journal: Behavior Genetics Aim and Scope: Genetically informed studies of human behavior captivate a broad a...
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Scared to share this after 10 freaking years of waiting, but here we go: We found that temperature *perception* can change the biology of the next generations, even when “it’s just in the parents' head”. Read how C. elegans neurons control epigenetic inheritance! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Perception of Temperature Even in the Absence of Actual Change is Sufficient to Drive Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Can processes occurring in one individuals nervous system influence the physiology of the descendants? Here we explored the provocative hypothesis that parents sensation or perception of environmental...
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Na Cai @caina89.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New work by Andy Dahl and Michal Sadowski on using GxE to study genetics of drug response now out in Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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Characterizing the genetic architecture of drug response using gene-context interaction methods
Sadowski et al. propose a framework to study the genetics of response to commonly prescribed drugs in large biobanks. They quantify the heritability of response to statins, metformin, warfarin, and methotrexate, and identify associated genes. Their analysis also shows the importance of accounting for drug use in genetic risk prediction.
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Andrea Ganna @andganna.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
WHO just released the new principles for ethical collection and sharing of genomics data www.who.int/news/item/20...
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WHO releases new principles for ethical human genomic data collection and sharing
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a set of principles for the ethical collection, access, use and sharing of human genomic data. Created with guidance from the WHO Technical Advisory Grou...
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Hilary Martin @hilarycmartin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My group's work dissecting the contribution of common variants to rare neurodevelopmental conditions is now out at nature.com/articles/s41..., led by co-first authors Qinqin Huang (not yet on blue sky) and @emiliewigdor.bsky.social . See below for Emilie's tweetorial.
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Examining the role of common variants in rare neurodevelopmental conditions - Nature
Patients with neurodevelopmental conditions without a monogenic diagnosis have a higher polygenic burden than those with a monogenic diagnosis. Non-transmitted common all...
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