A new study shows connections between genetics, biomarkers in the blood, and mental disorders - opening new avenues to understand the causes of mental illness and find new treatments.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Genome-wide association study
Displaying all articles
Using a technique called admixture mapping, researchers can leverage the diversity of people with mixed ancestry to look for hard-to-find genetic risk factors for diseases like Alzheimer’s disease.
Genes that control blood type and are involved in inflammation have been associated with more severe disease.
A study of more than 1.7 million people has revealed 41 distinct genetic regions associated with left-handedness, and another 7 tied to ambidexterity.
New research is pinpointing how much genes influence the stability of educational achievement.
Scientists find the missing link in epigenetics that could explain the mystery of inherited disease.
Top contributors
-
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, King's College London
-
Professor of Epigenetics, Queen Mary University of London
-
Professor of Statistical Genetics, The University of Queensland
-
Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London
-
Cordinator Mental Health Research Program, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
-
Professor of Biosciences and Head of Research (National Horizons Centre), Teesside University
-
Research Assistant in Medical Genetics, University of Washington
-
PhD Candidate in Biology, Teesside University
-
Public Health Genetics PhD student and Research Assistant in Medical Genetics, University of Washington
-
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle
