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Personal reflections and what the ANGI results mean for patients, families, and clinicians today

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts about recent results from the Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative study published in Nature Genetics.

The results from ANGI

This is the first of a four-part blog series discussing the results and process of ANGI and our planned next steps in studying the genetics of eating disorders.

UNC delegation visiting KI and the ANGI team

A delegation from the University of North Carolina (UNC) has visited Karolinska Institutet. Among other visits, they met with their Swedish colleagues in the ANGI project.

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Personal reflections and what the ANGI results mean for patients, families, and clinicians today

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Jul

ANGI Farewell Meeting

On October 13, 2016, many of us who worked with the Swedish part of the ANGI study gathered to celebrate achieving our goal of collecting over 4000 blood samples in Sweden from people with anorexia nervosa.

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ANGI on the TV-news – Cynthia Bulik interviewed in Aktuellt

On October 12, the television news-show Aktuellt showed an interview with professor Cynthia Bulik about the ANGI-project. Bulik, who is the leading researcher in eating disorders and director of the American ANGI, was interviewed at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

This project has been reviewed and approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board, Stockholm (Dnr 2013/112-31/2). The ANGI-study is an international collaboration between Swedish, American, Danish and Australian researchers, coordinated from Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. ANGI stands for Anorexia Nervosa Genetic Initiative and the project is funded by the Klarman Family Foundation.