Dennis van der Meer

Understanding the Relationship Between Psychosis and Cardiometabolic Diseases - Postdoctoral researcher Dennis van der Meer and his colleagues are awarded 8 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway's FRIPRO program ... - ift.tt/SPUOC6T

Excited to share our new preprint. We reveal widespread genetic overlap across neurological and psychiatric disorders and a convergence of brain-related biological associations, contrasting their clinical distinction. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fun to run into brilliant people @SOBP2023 who I have not seen for ages, e.g., Olu and Dennis here - and Dennis wearing a splendid T-shirt !!

Excited (and relieved) to finally publish the preprint of a project we've been working on for a few years now: "The genetic architecture of human cerebellar morphology supports a key role for the cerebellum in recent human evolution and psychopathology". medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am hiring! Come work with us in Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴, at @SFFNORMENT and Diakonhjemmet Hospital! We have a fully funded 3-year PhD position in #Neuroendocrinology focusing on the 🧠and #WomensHealth. Deadline March 1st. Please RT! 201412.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit/P…

Two open postdoc positions in our group! Interested in mental health in youth, risk/protective factors, and brain imaging? Attractive Norwegian benefits and work conditions, strong international network and interdisciplinary environment. @SFFNORMENT @Psykologiskinst 👇

2) 3-4 yr postdoc linked to EU-funded @HEenvironMENTAL , large international network, big data, cutting-edge methods, work with @helga_ask @DvdM33r @oleaandreassen tinyurl.com/3z4yvja6 @EU_Commission

New preprint🥳 An evolutionary timeline of the oxytocin signaling pathway osf.io/42b8g We show that ancient oxytocin pathway genes support cellular processes in humans. More recent genes sustain adaptive functions, bone preservation & are upregulated in the brain. 🧵⬇️

Wrote a (I hope easily digestible) review paper on imaging genetics. Now online OA #TranslationalPsychiatry. Hope its of use! rdcu.be/cXw0K

Happy to share our new paper in @molpsychiatry🥳! We found: 1) subcortical volumes share substantial SNPs with schizophrenia, 2) shared genes are enriched in neurodevelopmental processes, and 3) two genes are associated with thalamic volume in childhood. nature.com/articles/s4138…

New preprint!! We found: 1) two schizophrenia gene sets with pre- versus postnatal cortical expression, 2) these sets associate with distinct neurodevelopmental processes, and 3) set-specific polygenic scores interact to predict diagnosis. Read more: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Insightful and well-written commentary @MeikeHettwer et al., and thanks for the kind words @sofievalk! Follow-up work underway... Always happy to discuss further, and see you at WCPG in September!

Excited to share a new @biorxivpreprint comparing the genetic architecture🧬of the cortex🧠 with and without adjustment for global measures🌐(total surface area, mean thickness), extending some the work we did in our recent @ScienceMagazine paper doi.org/10.1101/2022.0… 1/n

ENIGMA's first in-person meeting in 3 years!! - ha, well it almost went to plan when we showed up with 47 people! Thank you Sophia Thomopoulos for organizing our first non-ZOOM @enigmabrains meeting in years @ #SOBP2022 !! + thanks to the restaurant(s!) for putting up with us

Our latest multivariate GWAS now on BioRxiv! We studied 14 MRI-derived regional measures of adipose and muscle tissue from 39k individuals, finding large genetic overlap with cardiometabolic diseases, particularly for liver fat. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now we are past the initial excitement, let's take a deeper look into this GIANT paper. A thread.

Diphtheria And Tetanus Vaccination History Is Associated With Lower Odds of COVID-19 Hospitalization frontiersin.org/article/10.338… now in @FrontImmunol 🦠 #COVID19 @uk_biobank

Lots of laughs and insight gained by working on this review of neuroimaging studies of CNVs with an excellent team. Great, comprehensive figures!