Author/Editor     Bergen, Sarah; Chen, Jingchun; Dagdan, Elif; Foon, Tee Shiau; Goes, Fernando S; Houlihan, Lorna M; Kloiber, Stefan; Kumar, Ravinesh A; Kuzman-Rojnic, Martina; Videtič, Alja
Title     Selected summaries from the XVI World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, Osaka, Japan, 11-15 October 2008
Type     članek
Source     Psychiatr Genet
Vol. and No.     Letnik 19, št. 5
Publication year     2009
Volume     str. 219-36
Language     eng
Abstract     The XVI World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, sponsored by the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics took place in Osaka, Japan, October 2008. Approximately 600 participants gathered to discuss the latest molecular genetic findings relevant to serious mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, alcohol and drug abuse, autism, and attention-deficit disorder. Recently, the field has advanced considerably and includes new genome-wide association studies with the largest numbers of individuals screened and density of markers to date, as well as newly uncovered genetic phenomena, such as copy number variation that may prove to be relevant for specific brain disorders. The following report represents some of the areas covered during this conference and some of the major new findings presented.
Descriptors     MENTAL DISORDERS
GENOME, HUMAN
RNA
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
DEPRESSIVE DISORDER
SCHIZOPHRENIA
ALCOHOLISM
ANXIETY DISORDERS
PHENOTYPE
BIPOLAR DISORDER
PHARMACOGENETICS
SLEEP
CIRCADIAN RHYTHM