Alexandra Havdahl

ORCID: 0000-0002-9268-0423 · 4 papers in corpus
meta-analysis 2026
Nature human behaviour ·doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02476-7

Anxiety is heritable and exists on a continuum, with symptoms ranging from adaptive threat response to clinical disorder. Here we performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis of generalized anxiety symptom severity in 693,869 individua…

other 2025
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences ·doi:10.1101/2025.07.10.25331321

We performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis of generalised anxiety symptom severity in 696,563 individuals of European ancestry from 14 cohorts. We identified 82 independent genome-wide significant variants within 76 loci, 41 of wh…

observational 2025
PLoS genetics ·doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1011952

Genetic selection occurs at multiple stages before and during pregnancy. While parental genomes influence the probability of fertilization, the fetal genome, once established, plays a critical role in early fetal survival. However, when est…

observational 2021
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science ·doi:10.1192/bjp.2020.259

BACKGROUND: Some psychiatric disorders have been associated with increased risk of miscarriage. However, there is a lack of studies considering a broader spectrum of psychiatric disorders to clarify the role of common as opposed to independ…