Materials of the All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation "Genetics and Epigenetics of Mental Illnesses"
November 21-22, 2017 in Moscow was the All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation «Genetics and the epigenetics of mental illness» - the first scientific conference in Russia devoted to the genetics of mental diseases. The organizers of the conference were: Scientific Center of Mental Health, Russian Academy of Sciences; National Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Addiction named after V.P. Serbsky; Russian Society of Psychiatrists; The Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR). The conference was supported by the RFBR grant Project No. 17-015-20004. During the conference, fundamental problems and applied questions of genetics and epigenetics of the main mental diseases were discussed: schizophrenia, depression, autistic disorders, dependence on psychoactive substances. Reports were delivered by leading foreign and Russian specialists on full genomic research and bioinformatic analysis of genomic data; molecular aspects of transcription regulation; spatial organization of the genome; epigenetic aspects of mental illness. Your attention is offered to the materials prepared on the basis of the scientific reports sounded at the conference. Given the scale of the scientific event and the large number of reports, the materials will be published in several issues of the journal.