By invitation from the Psychiatric Clinic in Ljubljana and being in this context a member of the international consortium, MCMB took part at EC Framework-6 Project »Eating disorders, from genes to behaviour« (FP6-2002-LIFESCIHEALTH – LSH-2002-2.1.3-2 Eating disorders, from genes to behaviour) – QLK1-1999-00916 Factors in Healthy Eating: The Role of Social, Genetic and Environmental Factors in Healthy Eating – a multicentre analysis of eating disorders and obesity; 1999-2002.
Supporting research projects:
- Interinstitutional national research program P1-0104 Functional Genomics and Biotechnology for Health (R. Komel); 1999-2004 and 2004-2008.
- L3―5016 Transcription of anorexia candidate genes and an attempt to design a DNA microarray; national applied research project, R. Komel, 1/1/2003―31/12/2005.
- FP6-2002-LIFESCIHEALTH – LSH-2002-2.1.3-2 Eating disorders, from genes to behaviour – QLK1-1999-00916 Factors in Healthy Eating: The Role of Social, Genetic and Environmental Factors in Healthy Eating – a multicentre analysis of eating disorders and obesity; M. Tomori & R. Komel, 1999-2002.
- J3―2414 Genetic factors at eating disorders; national basic research project, R. Komel, 1/1/2000―30/6/2002.
Partners:
- Psychiatric Clinic, Ljubljana (Prof. Martina Tomori, M.D.)
- European Consortium »Factors in Healthy Eating« (coordinators David E. Collier and Jeanette Treasure, U.K.)
- King’s College, London (Dr. David E. Collier, M.D.)
Researchers involved:
| Researcher | Position |
| Radovan Komel | Head of Department / MCMB Project leader |
| Mojca Gabrovšek | PhD student |
| Marija Brecelj | PhD student at Psych. Clinic |
Education:
| Student | Thesis | Title | Year | Supervisors |
| Mojca Gabrovšek | PhD | Candidate gene analysis at eating disorders (annorexia nervosa and bullimia nervosa). | 2004 | Radovan Komel
Martina Tomori |
| Marija Brecelj | [trainee] | [methods of molecular genetic analysis] | 1999 | Radovan Komel |
Selected publications:
- Cellini E. et al. (2006) Case-control and combined family trios analysis of three polymorphisms in the ghrelin gene in European patients with anorexia and bulimia nervosa : [association report]. Psychiatric Genetics 16(2): 51-52.
- Ribases M. et al. (2005): Association of BDNF with restricting anorexia nervosa and minimum body mass index – a family-based association study of eight European populations. Eur. J. Hum. Genet. 13(4): 428-434.
- Ribases M. et al. (2004): Association of BDNF with Anorexia, Bulimia and age of onset of weight loss in six European populations. Hum. Mol. Genet. 12: 1205-1212.2
- Gabrovšek M. et al. (2004): Combined family trio and case-control analysis of the COMT Val158Met polymorphism in European patients with anorexia nervosa. Am. J. Med. Genet. – Part B, Neuropsych. Genet. 124B(1): 68-72.
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