Psychiatric Genomics: An Update and an Agenda

Patrick F Sullivan1, Arpana Agrawal1, Cynthia M Bulik1

  • 1From the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; the Departments of Genetics, Psychiatry, and Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.; the Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis; the Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), K.G. Jebsen Centre for Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo; the Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research (iPSYCH), Aarhus, Denmark; the Center for Integrative Sequencing (iSEQ), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; the Department of Biomedicine-Human Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King's College London, London; the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, South London and Maudsley National Health Service Trust, London; the Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; the Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, Bonn, Germany; the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Juelich, Germany; the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; the Departments of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience and Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, N.Y.; the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; the Department of Psychiatry and the Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville; the Department of Psychiatry, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, Calif., the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, and the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.; and the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, U.K.

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