The genetics of mental health and cognition Section: Translational Epidemiology Image Dr Pippa Thomson - Lecturer Research in a NutshellWe are using genetics to understand how the brain controls behaviour through studying genetic susceptibility to psychiatric illness (depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia). The group uses statistical genetic approaches to understand the basis of major mental illness. We continue this work, using linkage, association and whole genome sequence analysis to identify risk variants for mental illness and related quantitative traits such as cognition and mood, in both clinical and population-based cohorts. Key to this is using bioinformatics to understand the biological processes affected and integrating our understanding of the interaction between genetic and environmental effects acting on these complex phenotypes. Image PeopleDr Pippa ThomsonGroup leaderSally MarshallPostgraduate Research StudentContactPippa.Thomson@.ed.ac.uk Pippa Thomson - Research Information CollaborationsProfessor Andrew Mcintosh, University of Edinburgh Professor Stephen Lawrie, University of Edinburgh Professor Richard W. McCombie, Cold Spring Harbor, New YorkProfessor David Glahn, Harvard Medical SchoolScientific ThemesGenetics of complex traits, bioinformatics, psychiatric illness, cognition.Technology ExpertiseStatistics, sequence analysis, analysis of rare and common DNA variation, analysis of families and case-control data. This article was published on 2024-09-23
