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rs2132683, rs713155 and white matter near the left posterior lateral...
An historic find has occurred in the quest (gold-rush, if you will) to link genome variation with brain structure-function variation. This is the publication of the very first genome-wide (GWAS)...
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Feeling good about feeling bad
Just a pointer to a great book – The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield. Its an in-depth treatment on the...
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Sit quietly (with your genome) and discover yourself
Image via Wikipedia This past friday, I attended my first meditation session at my new yoga school. I love this school and hope – someday – to make it through the full Ashtanga series and other...
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Bigger genetic studies, more missing heritability
Twin studies have long suggested that genetic variation is a part of healthy and disordered mental life. The problem however – some 10 years now since the full genome sequence era began – has been...
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First ever replication of a GxE in psychiatric genetics
Image via Wikipedia According to the authors of “Protective effect of CRHR1 gene variants on the development of adult depression following childhood maltreatment: replication and extension“ [PMID:...
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echoblog: Dad, Mom ‘n kids go all-in for full sequence
Image via Wikipedia just a pointer to: Genetic Future’s pointer to the recent article, “Family become first to have DNA sequenced for non-medical reasons“. The father suggests, “it will be...
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Some 40 million-year-old ancestors have all the luck
One day, each of us may have the dubious pleasure of browsing our genomes. What will we find? Risk for this? Risk for that? Protection for this? and that? Fast twitching muscles & wet ear...
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Is the human genome too big for our planet?
I mean, how many people are really needed to run a sufficiently powered genome-wide association study? Are there enough people on the planet? Heather J. Cordell’s review, Detecting gene-gene...
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Have you ever wondered what your mind looks like to a cognitive geneticist?
Probably not. But, just in case you were wondering, it looks a lot like this. Its (um, YOU) are a multi-level model showing overlap in genetic targets as well as signaling and neural systems between...
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Is the genome as a blueprint for building your mind?
Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr Nope … “On mathematical grounds, it is difficult to understand how 10-to-the-14th synaptic connections in the human brain could be controlled by a genome...
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