Towards Cross-Disorder Connectomics

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

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.

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

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

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

An international research team led by Professor Danielle Posthuma (VU / VUmc) has identified the genes, brain areas and cell types that are important in intelligence and neuroticism. Both studies were published June 25, 2018 in Nature Genetics.

A joint effort between the groups of Gerome Breen of the Institute of Psychiatry, London and Danielle Posthuma of the CNCR-CTG, highlights functional consequences of genes associated with intelligence, published March 8, in Molecular Psychiatry.

As of March 1, 2018 Martijn van den Heuvel has started as a new PI at the Department of Complex Trait Genetics of the CNCR.

PhD student Mats Nagel from CTGlab publishes in Nature Communications