The manuscript titled “Genetic Loci Influencing Sex-Specific Social Reinforcement in Heterogeneous Stock Rats” was accepted for publication in Genes, Brain and Behavior.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Thiago Sanches, Apurva Chitre, Ben Johnson, Gracie Ang, Oksana Polesskaya, and Abraham Palmer.
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The manuscript titled “The Whole Individual is the Model: Why New Approach Methodologies Must Complement, Not Replace, Animal Models in Neuropsychopharmacology” was accepted for publication in Neuropsychopharmacology.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Daniel Munro and Abraham Palmer.
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Dr. Palmer is an author for the manuscript titled “Genome-wide association analyses of suicidality identify 77 loci and implicate subcortical brain regions and synaptic pathways,” which was accepted for publication in Nature Genetics.
The full author list is currently available on PubMed and medRxiv; and the final version will be added here after publication.
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The manuscript titled “Aberrant recursive splicing in a human disease locus” was accepted for publication in Cell Reports.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Oksana Polesskaya, Rudy Avila, and Abraham Palmer.
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The manuscript titled “A phenome-wide association study of externalizing polygenic risk in the adolescent brain” was accepted for publication in Psychological Medicine.
Yixuan (Lawrence) Xu joined the Palmer Lab in August 2026 as a rotation student in the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology PhD program.
Welcome, Lawrence!
Dr. Palmer was invited to give a talk for the Psychiatric Institute & Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics Neuroscience Seminar Series at University of Illinois at Chicago on August 27, 2026.
Kalyani joined the Palmer Lab in August 2026 as a Data Processes Information Systems Analyst with the Bioinformatics team.
Welcome, Kalyani!
Dr. Montana Lara was selected to be a scholar in the Human Genetics Scholars Initiative program from the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG).
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The manuscript titled “Data-driven RNA phenotyping captures genetically regulated dimensions of the transcriptome” was accepted for publication in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
Authors include current Palmer Lab members Daniel Munro and Abraham Palmer.
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