If you're looking to build or deepen your knowledge in statistical genetics, the ISG Workshop (June 1–11) covers the full range: biometrics, GWAS, polygenic scores, causal inference, and more. Open to all levels, virtual, and international: www.colorado.edu/ibg/workshop... Retweets appreciated 🙏

1/5 Merola et al. (2026) and Richards et al. (2022) used genomic structural equation modelling (gSEM) to identify latent genetic constructs and explore how they map onto observed traits.

I'm very honored to be recognized for the 2026 Janet Taylor Spence Award. ❤️ Thank you to the APS and congratulations to the other recipients this year!

Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a specific set of genetic variants go.nature.com/3Ymtiwg

Scientists have characterized the broad genetic patterns that are shared across 14 psychiatric disorders. Could it reframe how mental-health conditions are diagnosed? go.nature.com/48AooC4

Want to echo Abdel and encourage reading this excellent commentary he put together!

For more context, see also the @nature.com News & Views article about this work, where I unpack what it means when genetic risk for psychiatric disorders overlaps with normal-range traits, including some positive associations with education-related outcomes: rdcu.be/eT4U7

1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

IBG is saying a fond farewell to former postdoc @isyfoote.bsky.social. Isy was an invaluable asset to the institute in her time here. She is a Wellcome Trust Fellow and new faculty Queen Mary University of London. We can't wait to see what comes next for this exceptionally bright scholar 🧠🧬!

I'm delighted to say that, as of yesterday, Dr. Isy Foote @isyfoote.bsky.social is now my former postdoc as she is staring a faculty position at Queen Mary University of London. Isy is starting the position with a Wellcome Trust Fellowship 🏆. I couldn't be prouder and she will be sorely missed! ❤️

Our new preprint is out: "Immune Markers Mediate Genetic Relationships between Immune Diseases and Psychiatric Disorders"! 🧬🦠 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

University of Colorado Boulder Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors. This is open to all department areas, including Behavioral, Psychiatric, and Statistical Genetics🧬 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... #socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob #psycjobs #psychology 1/n

Amazing work from my colleague and postdoc Dr. Isabelle Foote on the genetic architecture of frailty. Encourage you to check it out!!!!

Some recent data: - First scores for frailty measurements (@isyfoote.bsky.social & @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social‬): www.pgscatalog.org/publication/... - Comprehensive comparison of type 2 diabetes PGS in Qatari Biobank: www.pgscatalog.org/publication/... Share PGS 👉 www.PGSCatalog.org/submit!

Check out this new work from IBG graduate student @breunigsophie.bsky.social that applies Genomic SEM to examine the relationship between genomic factors for immune-mediated diseases and psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out today, our method for comparing multivariate genetic architecture across groups of people, called Genomic Structural Invariance: www.nature.com/articles/s41... (feat: @tuckerdrob.bsky.social @michelnivard.bsky.social @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social @mijke.bsky.social @jorsmo.bsky.social et al.)

One of my talented graduate students (@breunigsophie.bsky.social) is putting together an immune-psychiatric focused symposium submission for the Behavior Genetics Association 2025 meeting in Atlanta. She needs one more talk to fill the symposium; if interested send me a message!

You've heard of DNA, but what about GNA? Very excited about this preprint with @jgthorp.bsky.social and others that introduces Genomic Network Analysis (GNA), an open-source multivariate tool for performing network analysis using GWAS summary statistics as input. 1/2 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... We introduce Genomic Network Analysis (GNA), a method to conduct network analysis on GWAS sumstats / estimate conditional genetic associations at multiple levels of analysis. @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social @zaccyg.bsky.social @drwilliamreay.bsky.social

Exciting post-doc position available working on my NIH funded project "Longitudinal multi-omic biomarkers for neurocognitive decline prior to dementia onset". Based in the beautiful city of Edinburgh within @edinunilbc.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

If you're not following the Behavior Genetics Association account yet (@behaviorgenetic.bsky.social), please do! 🧬🧠🤸🏽 Me and Margot van de Weijer will be running it for the time being, sharing BGA updates and summaries of interesting research from their classic journal 📜 RTs appreciated! 🙏🏽

🚨Writing to say that I am actively recruiting PhD students in the clinical -or- behavioral, psychiatric, and statistical genetics program (BPSG) at CU Boulder for a Fall 2025 start date. My lab focuses on genomic methods development and applications to psychiatric and aging outcomes (e.g., dementia)

Examining the Genetic Links between Clusters of Immune-mediated Diseases and Psychiatric Disorders https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.18.24310651v1

New preprint just dropped! 🧬🦠 For this project, we looked at the genetic relationships between psychiatric disorders and immune-mediated diseases. Check out the full paper here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Proud mentor moment! Three preprints recently released from the lab: 1. Postdoc Dr. Isy Foote examined the genetic architecture of frailty. Analyses reveal seven factors of frailty with unique genetic associations, clinical correlates, and biological pathways: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...