Emerging Global Initiatives in Neurogenetics: The Enhancing Neuroimaging Genetics through Meta-analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium

Carrie E Bearden; Paul M Thompson

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.03.033

Emerging Global Initiatives in Neurogenetics: The Enhancing Neuroimaging Genetics through Meta-analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium

Neuron. 2017 Apr 19;94(2):232-236. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.03.033.

Authors

Carrie E Bearden¹, Paul M Thompson²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Department of Psychology, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: cbearden@mednet.ucla.edu.
² Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA. Electronic address: pthomp@usc.edu.

Abstract

The Enhancing Neuroimaging Genetics through Meta-analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium is a global team science effort, now including over 800 scientists spread across 340 institutions in 35 countries, with the shared goal of understanding disease and genetic influences on the brain. This "crowdsourcing" approach to team neuroscience has unprecedented power for advancing our understanding of both typical and atypical human brain development.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Brain / physiology*
Humans
Meta-Analysis as Topic*
Neuroimaging* / methods
Neurosciences*
Phenotype
Precision Medicine*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding