About the authors

All of the authors work at the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University School of Medicine.

 

Daniel Smith MD MRCPsych

Daniel Smith      

   

Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Cardiff University.  

 

Email: smithdj3@cardiff.ac.uk

 

Daniel Smith is currently involved in a number of clinical and genetic studies of   bipolar disorder and major depression.

 

Declaration of interest: none


Nick Craddock PhD FRCPsych

Nick Craddock   

   

Professor of Psychiatry at Cardiff University.

 

Email: craddockn@cardiff.ac.uk

 

Nick Craddock leads a research group investigating the genetics of mood and psychotic disorders (for more information please see http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/medicine/research/bipolar).

 

Declaration of interest: none

 


Michael O’Donovan PhD FRCPsych

Mick O'Donovan

   

Professor of Psychiatric Genetics at Cardiff University. 

 

Email:odonovanmc@cardiff.ac.uk

 

Michael O’Donovan's research base is broad but embraces molecular genetic approaches to psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, dyslexia, ADHD, Alzheimers disease, as well as the regulation of gene expression.

 

Declaration of interest: Grants from MRC UK, Wellcome Trust and NIH (USA). Occasional recipient of fees for chairing symposia sponsored by pharmaceutical companies including Lilly and Janssen-Cilag Ltd.

 


Michael Owen PhD FRCPsych FMedSci

Mike Owen       

   

Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine and Neurology and Director of the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics.

 

Email: owenmj@cardiff.ac.uk

 

Cardiff University is one of the world’s leading centres for the study of psychiatric genetics: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/medicine/psychological_medicine/.

 

Declaration of interest: none

 

 

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