The CAPICE project PhD students from VU Amsterdam presented their research studies at the World Conference of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG) 2019, in Los Angeles, California, October 26-31, 2019. This article contains information about two posters presented at the conference and about the talks "Using genetic data to investigate parental effects on offspring outcomes" by Eshim Shahid, and "Genetic overlap between childhood psychopathology and adult traits" by Omowonuola Akingbuwa.
The conference theme of 2019 was “Achieving Precision Psychiatry”.
Eshim Shahid's talk and a poster at WCPG2019:
Eshim Shahid gave the talk "Using genetic data to investigate parental effects on offspring outcomes".
Below is the poster of Eshim Shahid at the WCPG2019. It focuses on "Childhood and adolescent internalising problems: GWAS of ~250k observations points to heterogeneous genetic architecture".
Omowonuola Akingbuwa's talk and a poster at WCPG2019:
Omowonuola Akingbuwa gave the talk "Genetic overlap between childhood psychopathology and adult traits".
She also presented the poster "Gene expression in brain cell types and biological functions underlying neuropsychiatric disorders".