Opening up new horizons for psychiatric genetics in the Russian Federation: moving toward a national consortium.

ABSTRACT: We provide an overview of the recent achievements in psychiatric genetics research in the Russian Federation and present genotype-phenotype, population, epigenetic, cytogenetic, functional, ENIGMA, and pharmacogenetic studies, with an emphasis on genome-wide association studies. The genetic backgrounds of mental illnesses in the polyethnic and multicultural population of the Russian Federation are still understudied. Furthermore, genetic, genomic, and pharmacogenetic data from the Russian Federation are not adequately represented in the international scientific literature, are currently not available for meta-analyses and have never been compared with data from other populations. Most of these problems cannot be solved by individual centers working in isolation but warrant a truly collabor

SUBMITTER: Fedorenko OY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6756082 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature