World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG 2026)

The World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG 2026) is the annual meeting of the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics and is dedicated to genetic research in psychiatry.

The fundamental aim of psychiatric genetics is to identify genes that confer susceptibility to psychiatric disorders and to elucidate the pathway from the gene to the clinical phenotype.

Key Topics

• Functional Genomics
• Polygenic Risk Scores – Methods and Applications
• Genetic overlap & comorbidity between disorders
• Ethical Issues and Genetic Counselling
• New phenotyping and genetics/genomics methods and analytical tools
• Population Level Studies
• Diversity and trans-ancestry studies
• Interdisciplinary studies
• Prediction and stratification