Identification of causal variants for psychiatric diseases through massive parallel resequencing methods.

The aim of this project is the identification of rare and/or common risk variants that are implicated in the development of SZ and BP disorder. Hereto we will use massive parallel resequencing approaches. During this project we will obtain expertise in generating large sequencing datasets as well as expertise in the analysis of these large sequence based datasets. The milestones of the project are: ¿ Exon based candidate gene resequencing¿ Region specific resequencing¿ Whole human genome resequencing

Keywords:PSYCHIATRIC DISEASES, MOLECULAR GENOMICS, GENETICS

Disciplines:Genetics, Systems biology, Molecular and cell biology