Gerome Breen
@psychgenomics
Prof Psych Genetics (he/him) @KingsIoPPN NIHR MH BioResource. PI @edgi_uk, @GLADStudy, @covidcns. Gratitude: my wonderful TNG, Biobank groups @SGDPcentreKCL
GLAD is now >30,000 volunteers. Thanks to all of our participants, supporters, and all the researchers who have helped with recruitment in >200 clinical sites! If you have ever experienced depression or anxiety. @GLADStudy @NIHRBioResource @NIHRMaudsleyBRC
We would like to say a huge thank you to all of our participants who have taken the time to participate in the #GLADStudy and return their saliva kits! If you haven’t taken part yet and would like to you, you can sign up for the #GLAD Study at gladstudy.co.uk
Nice systematic analysis of gene convergence between common and rare variant GWAS discoveries. Not often we see common and rare variant studies implicating the same set of genes for a trait. This convergence is rare particularly for traits under strong selection like early…
Pleased to share our new preprint on the 1st large-scale GWAS meta-analysis of panic attacks and panic disorder 👇
Our panic GWAS meta-analysis is now up as a preprint on @medrxivpreprint. We looked at both panic attacks (N case >61,000) and panic disorder (N>29,000) and found the first GWS genetic loci for both (16 and 7 respectively) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Our panic GWAS meta-analysis is now up as a preprint on @medrxivpreprint. We looked at both panic attacks (N case >61,000) and panic disorder (N>29,000) and found the first GWS genetic loci for both (16 and 7 respectively) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
New research from @KingsIoPPN @NIHRBioResource has identified a range of weight loss behaviours associated with #eatingdisorders which are not currently included in assessment criteria: maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/posts/2025/jun… @edgi_uk @GLADStudy 📽️First author Saakshi Kakar explains:👇
Online workshop on GWAS, heritability analysis and prediction on Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd April. Each day runs from 8.30-11AM BST. Attendance is free; find out more details and register at EventBrite (eventbrite.com/e/online-works…)
New @wellcometrust Fellowship awarded for @Frankongho to advance #brain #infection diagnostics (#encephalitis & #meningitis) In @BrainIIGroup @LivUni_IVES @LivUni liverpool.ac.uk/infection-vete…
Most common causes PREVENTABLE by #vaccination. #WHO launches the FIRST Technical Brief on #Encephalitis today, supported by @encephalitis & @LivUni_IVES teams The 4th leading cause of #neurological death/disability in #children and 13th most common across all ages world-wide.
Fantastic work from one of our consultants and his team!
Most common causes PREVENTABLE by #vaccination. #WHO launches the FIRST Technical Brief on #Encephalitis today, supported by @encephalitis & @LivUni_IVES teams The 4th leading cause of #neurological death/disability in #children and 13th most common across all ages world-wide.
New publication on help-seeking in eating disorders, with consideration of intersecting marginalised characteristics. Brilliant first PhD publication from Jessica Wilkins! jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Seminar @SGDPCentreKCL @KingsIoPPN with Elham Assary and Rujia Wang on Thursday 13th February 2025, 10:00-11:00am.
Starting in south London in 2016, @TheREACHStudy at IoPPN has reached over 4,000 young people, to understand the mental health of young people as they grow up. Learn more about their research: kcl.ac.uk/research/reach #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
Matthias visited our team and had a great idea: What if - to predict disease onset - we use the semantic meaning associated with structured EHR data, rather than the actual codes? Would this make the model easier to transfer across countries/healthcare? GRASP was born
'Only the people who are the right amount of sick, at the right time, in the right place, in the right body with the right diagnosis get seen. Even then, treatment might harm them.' @jamesldowns at the #endeatingdisorders APPG report launch.
.@psychgenomics from the @edgi_uk project talks about the UK is world- leading in its genetic research into eating disorsders 'We have the knowledge but without funding we cannot develop new treatments for people who need them.' #endeatingdisorders #dumpthescales