title: Summaries of oral sessions at the XXI World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, Boston, Massachusetts, 17-21 October 2013: state of the field.
abstract: The XXI World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG), sponsored by the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics (ISPG), took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on 17-21 October 2013. Approximately 900 participants gathered to discuss the latest findings in this rapidly advancing field. The following report was written by student travel awardees. Each was assigned one or more sessions as a rapporteur. This manuscript represents topics covered in most, but not all of the oral presentations during the conference, and contains some of the major notable new findings reported.
authors.affiliation: aMeharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee bHuman Genetics Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland cSection of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois dWashington University School of Medicine at Washington University Medical Center, St Louis, Missouri eHarvard Medical School, VA Boston Healthcare System, Brockton, Massachusetts fHospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, USA gDepartment of Psychiatry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan hThe Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel iMax-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich jSection on Psychiatric Genetics, University Medical Center, University of Goettingen, Goettingen kDepartment of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany lDepartment of Psychiatry, Yuli Mental Health Research Center, Yuli Branch, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Yuli mInstitute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan nInstitute of Psychiatry, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Science - DIBINEM, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy oDepartment of General Biology, Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil pMRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomic, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff qMedical Research Council Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics rThe Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK sDepartment of Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland tNeurosciences, Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Neurobiology Research Center, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences uNe
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mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers / Q000378:metabolism; D001900:Boston; D058068:Endophenotypes; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks; D005820:Genetic Testing; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000235:genetics*; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers