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Overview
Identifying genetic variants underlying psychiatric conditions.
Psychiatric Genetics seeks to identify the common and rare genetic variants that underlie major mental illness, learning disability and related traits such as temperament, brain structure and function.
We then use these variants to better understand the mechanisms of mental disorder through the development of human, non-human and cellular models of these disorders.
Our work involves collaborations with many other individuals within Edinburgh and throughout the world, and the use of several methodologies.
Examples of projects
- Identification of highly penetrant variants
- Identification of common variants
- Genetic imaging and cognitive studies
- In vitro disease modeling
- The Psychiatry of Learning Disability and Autism
Contact
If you would like to hear more about our work, please contact Professor Andrew McIntosh.
- Professor Andrew M McIntosh
- Chair of Biological Psychiatry
- Division of Psychiatry
- Work: 0131 537 6274
- Fax: 0131 537 6291
- Email:
- andrew.mcintosh@ed.ac.uk
This article was published on Oct 17, 2011