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Sarah Colbert

@sarahcolbert.bsky.social

PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Interested in all things psychiatric genetics.

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Genome-wide association studies identify 77 loci for suicidality and provide novel biological insights Suicidality is heritable and a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, yet its biological etiology remains largely elusive. We conducted multi-ancestry genome-wide association study meta-anal...

🚨New preprint from PGC SUI!! @pgcgenetics.bsky.social

GWAS meta-analyses of suicidal ideation, attempt, death, and behavior across >50 cohorts identify 77 loci (59 novel), implicate subcortical brain regions, and show suicidality phenotypes are genetically distinct.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

27.10.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The PGC Suicide Working Group will provide a symposium at #WCPG2025 πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ covering our latest multi-ancestry GWAS and CNV meta-analyses, sex-specific meta-analyses, and GxEHR analyses. πŸ₯³

@lcstoshio.bsky.social @andreyshabalin.bsky.social @sarahcolbert.bsky.social @caina89.bsky.social

19.10.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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@sarahcolbert.bsky.social β€˜s #SRS25 presentation: Genome-Wide Association Studies of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

So incredible!

24.04.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Really appreciate you tuning in- thanks for the kind words!!

24.04.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

US military budget: $850 billion

US National Institutes of Health indirect costs: $9 billion

That they are so focused on cutting the budget of the latter says everything.

08.02.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 813    πŸ” 204    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 7

Happy to share the preprint of our GWAS of DSM-defined nicotine dependence! Thanks to all my coauthors for their hard work on this, especially co-first author Dongbing Lai & my fellow PGC SUD analysts for their many helpful suggestions.

03.02.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Article screenshot of a genome-wide association study of major depression published in the journal Cell

Article screenshot of a genome-wide association study of major depression published in the journal Cell

1/n Our multi-ancestry #GWAS meta-analysis of major depression is now published in @cellpress.bsky.social.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A thread 🧡:

14.01.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 10

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