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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A #WCPG2026 highlight! 🧬🌎 @roseannpeterson.bsky.social, PhD, presenting the LAGC-MDD work on depression genetics in Latin American populations. Great to see this collaborative work and the LAGC-MDD Working Group represented in Glasgow!

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#PsycheMERGE at #WCPG2026! 📸🧬 @madhurbsingh.bsky.social, PhD, presented Poster W66 on our trans-ancestry and sex-stratified GWAS meta-analysis of depression diagnosis, pictured here with @roseannpeterson.bsky.social. Great to see the team representing PsycheMERGE in Glasgow!

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A #WCPG2026 highlight! 📸🧬 Peter Barr, PhD, presenting Poster W29 on the multivariate genetics of PTSD and problematic substance use. Great to see Peter sharing this work with the psychiatric genetics community in Glasgow!

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A few days later at #WCPG2026! 📸🧬 @jolienrietkerk.bsky.social, PhD, presenting Poster W62 on postnatal depression and reproductive-related traits using CONVERGE and All of Us. Great to see the work presented in Glasgow!

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A great week for POP-GEM and collaborators at #WCPG2026! 🧬 From depression and postnatal depression to PTSD, substance use, and cross-ancestry genomics—great to see the team sharing this work in Glasgow. Thanks to everyone who stopped by!

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

New open-access Translational Psychiatry paper: multi-omic integration + drug repurposing to identify FDA-approved treatments for opioid use disorder. Led by POP-GEM’s B. Todd Webb, PhD. Approach generalizable across complex traits & disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #OUD

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

(6/6) Dr. @nscorralfrias.bsky.social will discuss the LAGC-MDD’s meta-analytic GWAS efforts, followed by Dr. @roseannpeterson.bsky.social remarks on the importance of including ancestrally diverse populations in psychiatric genomics. #WCPG2025 #LAGC #PsychiatricGenomics

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

(2/6) Latin America has one of the highest global rates of MDD (~12%) yet remains underrepresented in psychiatric genetics. This session explores new findings addressing that gap through cross-ancestry research. #WCPG2025 #LAGC

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Congratulations to #LanieMullins, PhD student #VCU_VIPBG, on receiving the Rising Star Award at #BGA2025 🎉 Her poster using #UKBiobank data linked immune system markers (MLR/NLR) to depression, with NLR emerging as a stronger predictor in older adults.

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

🚨 New paper out! In a collaboration across MVP, FinnGen & UK Biobank, we conducted a phenome-wide study of sex chromosome trisomies (SCT) in 1.5M participants. Findings reveal shared disease risks across SCT. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

New preprint🌍 Our trans-ancestry GWAS in UK Biobank uncovers novel risk loci for major depression, improving genetic insights across populations. 🔗: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @madhurbsingh.bsky.social @gentyae.bsky.social @pbb319.bsky.social timbigdeli.bsky.social @roseannpeterson.bsky.social

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

New paper! Led by Kirsten J. M. van Hooijdonk & Jacqueline Vink, this study finds no bidirectional causal link between diet/physical activity & depression/anxiety using triangulation. No strong causal evidence! @zoereed.bsky.social @madhurbsingh.bsky.social 📖 doi.org/10.1017/S003...

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🚀 New paper by @madhurbsingh.bsky.social on smoking & DNA methylation via twin-based MR using @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social data! Supervised by Mike Neale, @jennyvandongen.bsky.social, & Conor Dolan. Co-authors: @dlapato.bsky.social, @charlesbreeze.bsky.social. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s106...

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POP-GEM Lab @popgemlab.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Thrilled to share some amazing news— @madhurbsingh.bsky.social, supervised by Roseann Peterson, PhD, and Michael C. Neale, PhD, has been awarded VCU VIPBG's Kenneth S. Kendler Award for Excellence in Predoctoral Research!

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