Our paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... See this thread from the PGC account for a breakdown of our results. Huge thanks to all my wonderful co-authors, especially co-first author Brittany Mitchell and my supervisor/joint senior author @thaliaeley.bsky.social

Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC)@pgcgenetics.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 New publication in @nathumbehav.nature.com from the PGC Anxiety Working Group: the largest GWAS of generalised anxiety symptoms to date, analysing ~700k across 14 cohorts. We found 74 genome-wide significant loci, 39 novel for anxiety.

Excited to be at this year’s #IoPPNFestival and to see Dr @chloewong.bsky.social from the SGDP open the event. Our theme, ‘Discovery, Research Culture & the Path to Impact’, celebrates the full journey from insight to real-world change #MHAW

Delighted to be hiring a new Clinical Psychology Lecturer in #childandadolescent #eatingdisorders to come and join our vibrant environment @SGDPCentreKCL @KingsIoPPN @KingsCollegeLon @MaudsleyNHS Please repost! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Wonderful testament to the ongoing commitment of the TEDS twins that we have received funding for a further 5 years.

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience@kingsioppn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Twins Early Development Study (led by @thaliaeley.bsky.social, largest and one of the longest-running (over 30 years!) longitudinal twin study in the UK, receives £5 million from the Medical Research Council www.kcl.ac.uk/news/twins-e...

🧵 New publication from the PGC Anxiety Working Group. Our GWAS meta-analysis of anxiety disorders is now published in @natgenet.nature.com! 🔗: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Another recent paper in CPsy: Computational Modelling Reveals Slower Safety Learning and Threat Extinction are Associated With Higher Anxiety Severity in Remote Fear Conditioning from Tim Kerr, @olijrobinson.bsky.social and @thaliaeley.bsky.social and team...

Out earlier this week in @natgenet.nature.com: GWAS of major anxiety disorders in 122,341 European-ancestry cases identifying 58 loci (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) Awesome work, and great news for the anx genetics community — each @pgcgenetics.bsky.social paper seeds 100s more papers!

Genome-wide association study of major anxiety disorders in 122,341 European-ancestry cases identifies 58 loci and highlights GABAergic signaling - Nature Genetics

Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 58 independent risk loci for major anxiety disorders among individuals of European ancestry and implicates GABAergic signaling as a potential mechanism...

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Come join our vibrant department for a year to learn about the development and treatment of mental health conditions!

Joni Coleman@jonicoleman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Interested in how mental health develops? If your background is in psychology, biosciences, or a related field, our MSc in Developmental Psychology & Psychopathology at @kingsioppn.bsky.social could be your next step: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgr... Join us in September – reach out to learn more!

Delighted to be hiring a new Clinical Psychology Lecturer to come and join our vibrant environment at the SGDP Centre @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social please share! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Congratulations to Professor @thaliaeley.bsky.social, who has been elected a Fellow of the @britishacademy.bsky.social! www.kcl.ac.uk/news/profess...

Professor Thalia Eley elected a Fellow of the British Academy

Professor Eley joins 92 new Fellows welcomed to the prestigious British Academy, in recognition of scholarly distinction in the humanities and social sciences.

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(2/2) In a preprint led by @megsk.bsky.social @thaliaeley.bsky.social in @gladstudy.bsky.social, GWASs of #functionalimpairment, anxiety, and depressive symptoms revealed high genetic correlations, suggesting symptom measures may detect most of the genetics of functional impairment. 🔍 osf.io/4d6ju

This study uncovered several genetic associations linked to environmental sensitivity in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental traits, using data from over 21,000 MZ twins @munroepb.bsky.social @thaliaeley.bsky.social @neilmdavies.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genetics of monozygotic twins reveals the impact of environmental sensitivity on psychiatric and neurodevelopmental phenotypes - Nature Human Behaviour

This study uncovered genetic associations with environmental sensitivity in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental traits in an international collaboration using data from more than 21,000 monozygotic twi...

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Researchers have found #genetic factors that may make people more or less sensitive to the environments they experience. It is the largest genetics study of identical #twins to date. 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/news/largest... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social

Beautiful light as I head home after my first day as Head of Department @ SGDP Centre, @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. So delighted to take up this role after nearly 30 years working here, and hoping to ensure we continue to enrich the wonderful collegiate atmosphere.

1. With @thaliaeley.bsky.social, we will investigate the genetics of PTSD, anxiety, & stress related disorders, leveraging data from the PGC amongst others 2. With @psychgenomics.bsky.social, we will extend and apply our drug repositioning pipeline to eating disorders (amongst others) 2/3