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Elucidating the Genetic Basis of Psychiatric Disorders

We advance precision psychiatry by synthesizing genetics, genomics, and medical bioinformatics with complementary technologies across human and model organisms.

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2025

Delay discounting violations vary by adolescent sociodemographics: Excluding nonsystematic data may bias conclusions

Gelino BW, Felton JW, Hung I, Strickland JC, Kahn GD, Thomas NS, Gowin JL, Sloan ME, Palmer AA, Sanchez-Roige S, Sanches MR, Yip SW, Maher BS & Rabinowitz JA

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

2025

Multi-ancestral genome-wide association study of clinically defined nicotine dependence reveals strong genetic correlations with other substance use disorders and health-related traits

Johnson EC, Lai D, Miller AP, Hatoum AS, Deak JD, Balbona JV, Baranger DAA, Galimberti M, Sanichwankul K, Thorgeirsson T, Colbert SMC, Sanchez-Roige S […] Edenberg HJ, Gelernter J, Agrawal A

Psychological Medicine

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2025

Genomic structural equation study reveals links between anorexia nervosa and delay discounting and perseverance but not other facets of impulsivity

Bianchi SB, Vilar-Ribo L, Palmer AA, Gustavson D, Sanchez-Roige S

Frontiers in Psychiatry

2025

Genome-wide association study of delay discounting in 134,935 23andMe participants

Thorpe HHA, Fontanillas P, Meredith JJ, Jennings MV, Cupertino RB, Pakala S, 23andMe Research Team, Elson SL, Khokhar JY, Davis LK, Johnson EC, Palmer AA, Sanchez-Roige S

Molecular Psychiatry

2025

Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals

Thorpe HHA, Fontanillas P, Meredith JJ, Jennings MV, Cupertino RB, Pakala S, 23andMe Research Team, Elson SL, Khokhar JY, Davis LK, Johnson EC, Palmer AA, Sanchez-Roige S

Molecular Psychiatry

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