UNC School of Medicine’s Patrick Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, and a team of scientists in the Psychiatric Genetic Consortium have created a new manual researchers can use to learn more about the origins of human diseases with high genetic risk.
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 8 papers during March 12th – 25th, 2023. Schizophrenia risk conferred by rare protein-truncating variants is conserved across diverse human populations. Liu D, Meyer D, Fennessy B, Feng C, Cheng E, Johnson JS, Park YJ, Rieder MK, Ascolillo S, de Pins A, Dobbyn A, Lebovitch D, Moya … Read more
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 16 papers during January 15th – 28th, 2023.
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 8 papers during December 4th – 17th, 2022.
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 12 papers during November 20th – December 3rd, 2022.
Led by Jin Szatkiewicz, PhD, UNC School of Medicine researchers and University of Toronto colleagues found that a rare form of a common genetic variant called tandem repeats is strongly associated with the development of schizophrenia.
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 11 papers during November 6th – 19th, 2022.
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 10 papers during October 9th – 22nd, 2022.
Transformational gift seeks to reduce the morbidity and mortality of suicide in patients seen across the UNC Health system and beyond.
Patrick Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, Ray M. Hayworth & Family Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Psychiatry has been awarded a 5-year, $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) titled “Sequencing and Trans-Diagnostic Phenotyping of Severe Mental Illness in Diverse Populations”.
