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PI Tinca Polderman receives large grant from NWO

Netherlands Autism Register (NAR) of the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam obtains grant of 1,5 million euro to extend and enrich the NAR with genetic data, online neuropsychological tests, and online interventions

CNCR PI's receive major grant for translational neurogenetics

The Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science awards 19.6 million€ Gravitation grant to BRAINSCAPES consortium led by CNCR

Huge genetic study on pleiotropy and genetics of complex traits

PhD student Kyoko Watanabe (CNCR-CTG) curated 4155 GWAS results and analyzed558 traits to explore fundamental genetic questions. The study is published in Nature Genetics.

Novel method for integrating scRNA seq with GWAS results

PhD student Kyoko Watanabe (CNCR-CTG) publishes a novel way of using single cell gene expression data to prioritize cell types in disease. Her paper features as Editor’s highlight in Nature Communications

Opinion piece by van den Heuvel in Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Towards Cross-Disorder Connectomics

ERC Advanced grant awarded to Danielle Posthuma

2.5M Euro from the EU Horizon 2020 program to bridge Genetics and Neuroscience

Human brain evolution favored connections that boost information

A new study of Dirk Jan Ardesch and colleagues comparing the human and chimpanzee brain provides new insight on human brain specializations, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Novel genes and cell types detected for insomnia

In massive GWAS study, PhD student Philip Jansen provides new insight into the genetics of insomnia, published in Nature Genetics

Novel genetic risk factors discovered for Alzheimer’s disease

Postdocs Iris Jansen, Jeanne Savage and others from CNCR-CTG find novel genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s dementia, published in Nature Genetics

Novel method for conditional and interaction gene-set analysis

PhD student Christiaan de Leeuw (CNCR-CTG) has developed an important new tool for advanced gene-set analyses, published in Nature Communications this week
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