Sarah Colbert
sarahcolbert.bsky.social
Sarah Colbert
@sarahcolbert.bsky.social
PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Interested in all things psychiatric genetics.
🚨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...
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...
www.medrxiv.org
October 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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The PGC Suicide Working Group will provide a symposium at #WCPG2025 🇲🇽 covering our latest multi-ancestry GWAS and CNV meta-analyses, sex-specific meta-analyses, and GxEHR analyses. 🥳

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October 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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@sarahcolbert.bsky.social ‘s #SRS25 presentation: Genome-Wide Association Studies of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

So incredible!
April 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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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.
February 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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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.
Multi-ancestral genome-wide association study of clinically defined nicotine dependence reveals strong genetic correlations with other substance use disorders and health-related traits. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.25320962v1
February 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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1/n Our multi-ancestry #GWAS meta-analysis of major depression is now published in @cellpress.bsky.social.

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

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January 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM