Abigail ter Kuile

Mendelian randomization short course This course covers the fundamental developments in Mendelian randomization and gives practical explanations about how to apply MR to applied research questions.

Are you looking to learn how to conduct and interpret Mendelian randomization studies?

You can register now for our in-person short course at UCL. With @emmylooroll.bsky.social and @dylwil.bsky.social

16th-18th September 2025.

Details here:

www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

Pleased to share our new preprint on the 1st large-scale GWAS meta-analysis of panic attacks and panic disorder 👇

That’s a wrap for the #MDD & #Anxiety takeover, thanks for joining us! Special thank you to Outreach Committee Liaisons @karmelchoi.bsky.social (MDD) & @abiterkuile.bsky.social (Anxiety) and all post contributors.

Check out our new paper on the second UKB mental health questionnaire! Was a pleasure to work on the coding team (incl. new additions of panic disorder & panic attack algorithms with @megsk.bsky.social). Thanks for leading @katrinadavis.bsky.social & coding lead @jonicoleman.bsky.social!

GitHub - ColemanResearchGroup/MHQ2: Code for deriving phenotypes from the second Mental Health Questionnaire in UK Biobank Code for deriving phenotypes from the second Mental Health Questionnaire in UK Biobank - ColemanResearchGroup/MHQ2

Thanks also to the coding team (see next bleet) who put together the algorithms for this work, which can be found here: github.com/ColemanResea... (as well as a mirror on the DATAMIND GitHub)

(RAP-friendly implementation is a work in progress...!)

2/n Which #anxiety disorders were included & how were they measured?
✅ 5 major anxiety disorders: ‘any anxiety’ approach captures shared genetics across disorder cluster
📝 Anxiety can be measured in different ways: tested heterogeneity across assessment methods & found strong genetic overlap

Live from the conference continues, we are now at 98 club karaoke, first come first serve! @essgn.bsky.social