A research team that included five BBRF grantees has reported results of a large study relating DNA variations to the risk of problematic alcohol use (PAU). The study nearly tripled the number of…
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The human genome’s three billion pairs of DNA “letters” are a code of instructions packed tightly in the center of every cell, bearing our genetic inheritance. The sequence of those letters, which…
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In the first group of 11 papers that PsychENCODE researchers have shared with the scientific community, they demonstrate that by layering different types of data, points of convergence emerge—…
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By far the largest genetic study to date of anorexia nervosa has identified eight areas in the human genome in which DNA variations are likely to contribute to risk for the illness. Even more…
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After years of trying, researchers say they have now succeeded in discovering specific areas of the human genome that contain variations in DNA sequence that are robustly associated with risk for…
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