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Christopher Rayner is a Researcher at King's College London's Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, part of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. His work focuses on genetic and environmental influences on mental health, including child psychopathology, developmental trajectories, and gene-environment interactions. He contributes to large-scale studies like the Norwegian Mother-Father-Child Birth Cohort (MoBa) and the Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI).
Education: PhD in Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry (King's College London, 2021).
Research Interests: Behavioral genetics, childhood maltreatment, prenatal influences, and polygenic prediction in mental health disorders. His recent work explores mechanisms linking socioeconomic status to child psychopathology and maternal-fetal genetic interactions.
Collaborations: Active in transnational research networks, including studies on ADHD, anxiety/depression prognosis, and genome-wide association analyses. He co-developed phenotools, an R package for MoBa data analysis.
Labs/Teams: Part of the Translational Neuropsychiatric Genomics team and contributes to the EDGI project to advance eating disorder genetics research.
