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Claire Morrison

Predoctoral Trainee

Institute for Behavioral Genetics • Psychology & Neuroscience

Institute for Behavioral Genetics
University of Colorado Boulder
447 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0447

Research Interests:

I'm interested in using genomic methods to understand the complex relationships between sleep health and psychiatric disorders. Specifically, I would like to help parse directionality in those relationships to potentially inform public health interventions aimed at mitigating costly consequences of poor sleep health and psychiatric disorders.

Mentor:

Naomi Friedman

Additional Information:

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Highlighted publications

Genome-Wide Association Study Shows that Executive Functioning Is Influenced by GABAergic Processes and Is a Neurocognitive Genetic Correlate of Psychiatric Disorders

Executive functions (EFs) are cognitive control processes involved in goal-directed behaviors and are associated with psychiatric disorders. Here, we perform a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on a Common EF factor and show that it is molecularly influenced by GABA-ergic processes, that it is genetically distinct from intelligence (IQ), and that EF and IQ are differentially associated with psychiatric disorders. Our results suggest EF is particularly relevant for understanding the genetic variance in psychiatric disorders.

(Biological Psychiatry, 2022)

Sleep health at the genomic level: Six distinct factors and their relationships with psychopathology

Poor sleep health is associated with many negative health consequences, including psychopathology. Here, we assessed six correlated, but distinct, latent genetic dimensions of sleep heath (Circadian Preference, Efficiency, Duration, Alertness, Regularity and Non-Insomnia) and found they were differentially associated with dimensions of psychopathology. The genetic separability of these sleep health factors has important implications for how sleep is assessed with respect to mental health.

(Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 2022)

News

Claire Morrison, IBG graduate student, won the Rowe award at BGA 2020

Aug. 31, 2020

Claire Morrison , a graduate student at IBG, won the Rowe award for best poster presentation at the 2020 BGA conference. The title of her poster is Latent genetic structure of sleep health and psychopathology.

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