Large Scale Genetic Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders in African Populations is Needed

Affiliations

• ¹ MRC/UCT Human Genetics Research Unit, Division of Human Genetics, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa ; Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ² Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa ; Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ³ Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA ; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA ; Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
• ⁵ Department of Mental Health, School of Medicine, Moi University College of Health Sciences, Eldoret, Kenya.
• ⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
• ⁷ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁸ Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda ; MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda.
• ⁹ Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Cape Town, South Africa ; Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
• ¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ¹¹ KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya ; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ¹² MRC/UCT Human Genetics Research Unit, Division of Human Genetics, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ¹³ Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ¹⁴ Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA ; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA ; Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.