Psychiatric Genomics Consortium symposium at World Congress for Psychiatric Genetics: Marked Progress via Collaboration chaired by Dr. Patrick Sullivan, Director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics.

Dr. Patrick Sullivan chaired a symposium on October 21 at the World Congress for Psychiatric Genetics in Boston, Massachusetts, “The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium: Marked Progress via Collaboration.” Dr. Sullivan is the lead Principle Investigator of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC). Professor Mick O’Donovan (United Kingdom) described findings for common variation, Dr. Shaun Purcell (Harvard) rare variation, Dr. Ben Neale (Broad Institute) autism, Professor Naomi Wray (Queensland Brain Institute) genetic architectures, and Dr. Mark Daly (Harvard) was discussant. The PGC now has full GWAS data on 172,000 individuals in analysis, and the “psych chip” experiment will add at least 80,000 more.