WCPG - World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics 2016

XXIV World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG) will take place in Jerusalem, Israel on October 30 – November 4, 2016. The WCPG is the annual meeting of the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics (ISPG), the world leading organization in genetic research in psychiatry. The conference is held alternatingly in North America and Europe, with about 700-900 participants from countries all over the world. In 2016 it will be held in Jerusalem, Israel. 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.