Director, The NeuroDevelopment Variability Initiative (NDV) | NeuroDev 🇰🇪🇿🇦🇺🇸| Proudly South African
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Joined June 2019
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Celia van der Merwe retweeted
New preprint alert 📢: A Giant Leap for Childhood Brain Research in Africa! 🌍👶
NeuroDev is one of the largest clinical & genetic studies of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) conducted in Africa 👏🏼medrxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Congratulations team NeuroDev!
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Thanks to the @PGCgenetics PGC-Africa team for highlighting our work! If you or anyone you know is interested in talking about ADHD research in Africa, please get in touch!
I am excited to be working with the PGC Africa group as the lead for ADHD research on the African continent! @cevanderm
Very proud to be part of this - great work by @patkipkemoi and the NeuroDev team!
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Celia van der Merwe retweeted
I’m sample(c("thrilled", "honoured", "#blessed", "proud"), 1) to announce our work on the female protective effect (FPE) in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is out in Cell Genomics 🎉 🧵 (1/11)
cell.com/cell-genomics/fullt…
Celia van der Merwe retweeted
A large genetic study of neurodevelopmental differences in South Africa and Kenya called NeuroDev is revealing new genetic markers, raising awareness around these conditions, and building genetics research capacity in Africa. broad.io/destigmatize-NDDs 1/3
If you're attending the #MQScienceSummit come check out my poster on genetic findings from the NeuroDev study! @MQmentalhealth
Celia van der Merwe retweeted
I’m thrilled to present our analyses on the female protective effect (FPE) against autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using the nationally representative Danish iPSYCH resource, SSC+SPARK and UKB: medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… (1/11)
Celia van der Merwe retweeted
Curious about neurodevelopmental disorders in African populations? Led by @elisebrobinson, NeuroDev collects genetic and health information from children with ASD, and/or ADHD in South Africa and Kenya.
Check out the website for more information neurodevproject.org/!
I have the privilege of working with this brilliant student on the NeuroDev study. Congrats, Patricia!
Introducing the GINGER Fellows! Meet Patricia Kipkemoi, developmental psychologist & PhD candidate
@KEMRI_Wellcome. She researches diagnostic assessments & interventions for children withneurodevelopmental conditions as well as their phenotypic & genetic architecture #hsphginger
I'm thrilled to announce my new role as Research Director for NeuroDev! This is an exceptional study aimed at understanding the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders in SouthAfrican & Kenyan populations. Check out our amazing website for all the deets
neurodevproject.org
Celia van der Merwe retweeted
Two continents, five nations, 35,000 people. NeuroGAP-Psychosis brings scientists from Africa and the US together to study the genetics of mental illness. Stay tuned for our early October feature exploring this visionary program. Watch the trailer below:
Celia van der Merwe retweeted
After 3 years, today we celebrated the #graduation of our first cohort of Research Fellows. Thank you to all those who were able to attend! @HarvardChanSPH @StanleyCenter @broadinstitute @MakerereU @MoiUniKenya @UCT_news @KEMRI_Wellcome @AddisAbabaUnive
Celia van der Merwe retweeted
Excited to announce that Tractor is now released as a preprint! Tractor is statistical framework and scalable software package that enables the inclusion of admixed individuals in association studies by leveraging local ancestry. 🚜
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Celia van der Merwe retweeted
@genetisaur and I wrote a review! A tour of analytic and translational genetics, building and analyzing increasingly large cohorts to study population and statistical genetics: annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10…
Celia van der Merwe retweeted
Also the first publication with genetic data from the NeuroGAP-Psychosis project! Our sequencing data, generated here to test genetic technologies on African populations, itself adds to available reference panels for underrepresented populations.
Congrats to all who worked on this brilliant paper!
To all ENIGMA Consortium members: we would like to thank each and every one you and your teams for the tremendous amount of work, dedication and collaborative spirit that has allowed us to keep working on such projects!! Here's to the next 10 years!
nature.com/articles/s41398-0…