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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Maudsley @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A large-scale GWAS led by King’s IoPPN and collaborators has identified the largest number of genetic associations with #anxiety to date. The study linked genetic data to severity of symptoms rather than the yes/no category of a clinical diagnosis. ➡️ www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/news/novel-g...

“Given the high and rising rates of anxiety, especially in young adults, it is more important than ever to improve our ability to identify and understand sources of risk.

We hope our findings encourage a new wave of large-scale analyses to accelerate our progress in understanding the genetic architecture of anxiety.”

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Meg Skelton @megsk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Our paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... See this thread from the PGC account for a breakdown of our results. Huge thanks to all my wonderful co-authors, especially co-first author Brittany Mitchell and my supervisor/joint senior author @thaliaeley.bsky.social

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Meg Skelton @megsk.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

💡🎓"How do domestic abuse and childhood maltreatment impact psychological therapy outcomes? Mixed methods research using longitudinal cohort datasets." Excited to be advertising this #MRC #PhD at King's College London, supervised by Dr @roxannekeynejad.bsky.social, Prof Thalia Eley, & me! Link below

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Meg Skelton @megsk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Delighted to see the preprint up for our genome-wide meta-analysis of panic attack and panic disorder 🎉 This was a solid team effort!

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Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) @pgcgenetics.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

(2/2) In a preprint led by @megsk.bsky.social @thaliaeley.bsky.social in @gladstudy.bsky.social, GWASs of #functionalimpairment, anxiety, and depressive symptoms revealed high genetic correlations, suggesting symptom measures may detect most of the genetics of functional impairment. 🔍 osf.io/4d6ju

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Abigail ter Kuile @abiterkuile.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Check out our new paper on the second UKB mental health questionnaire! Was a pleasure to work on the coding team (incl. new additions of panic disorder & panic attack algorithms with @megsk.bsky.social). Thanks for leading @katrinadavis.bsky.social & coding lead @jonicoleman.bsky.social!

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Perline Demange @perlinedemange.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Two weeks ago we had an amazing Social Science and Genetics conference in Oslo! Now that I had time to recover, I wanted to recall and reflect on some of the *ethical and social impacts* discussed during the conference. 🧵 /13

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