Latest Results

Depression is a complicated disorder, so Generation Scotland (along with other international researchers) are bringing together large samples, brain images (MRI) and new machine learning models (AI) to identify brain markers of people with depression and develop individual treatments. This important project is only in its first stages. This ‘dimensional’ and collaborative approach will be vital to understanding and treating depression as well as other diseases.

Data from over 4,000 sibling groups, totalling 11,000 of our volunteers, were studied in this international research involving 18 other research studies.

Levels of anxiety and depression remained high between lockdowns and worsened in the second lockdown, found researchers

Newborn blood spots from a small sample of 98 Generation Scotland volunteers were tested to see if they could be used for health research on a national scale. Here's what we found.

The findings were made after data from more than 18,000 of our CovidLife volunteers were analysed alongside volunteer data from 6 other studies.

Generation Scotland volunteer data used in large scale study that identifies a new gene location affecting kidney function.

Analysing changes to DNA in the blood can improve the ability to predict a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes within a decade.

By analysing the blood of over 9000 of our volunteers, researchers may have found a new way to predict when some health conditions might develop.