Morten Dybdahl Krebs

Psychiatric resident & Postdoctoral researcher — Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Mental Health Center Sct Hans

About

I am a psychiatric resident and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Biological Psychiatry. My research focuses on psychiatric genetics, using Danish health registers and biobank data to develop methods for genetic risk assessment.

I work with polygenic scores, family-based genetic risk approaches, and large-scale registry studies to better understand the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders.

Research

Psychiatric genetics — polygenic scores, family-based genetic risk, and registry-based studies.

Selected publications

  1. Dybdahl Krebs, M., Appadurai, V., Georgii Hellberg, K.-L., Ohlsson, H., Steinbach, J., Pedersen, E., iPSYCH Study Consortium, Werge, T., Sundquist, J., Sundquist, K., et al. (2026). The relationship between genotype- and phenotype-based estimates of genetic liability to psychiatric disorders, in practice and in theory. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 113, 184–201. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2025.11.016
  2. Dybdahl Krebs, M., Georgii Hellberg, K.-L., Lundberg, M., Appadurai, V., Ohlsson, H., Pedersen, E., Steinbach, J., Matthews, J., Border, R., LaBianca, S., et al. (2024). Genetic liability estimated from large-scale family data improves genetic prediction, risk score profiling, and gene mapping for major depression. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 111, 2494–2509. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.09.009
  3. Krebs, M.D., Themudo, G.E., Benros, M.E., Mors, O., Børglum, A.D., Hougaard, D., Mortensen, P.B., Nordentoft, M., Gandal, M.J., Fan, C.C., et al. (2021). Associations between patterns in comorbid diagnostic trajectories of individuals with schizophrenia and etiological factors. Nat. Commun. 12, 6617. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26903-7
  4. Musliner, K.L., Krebs, M.D., Albiñana, C., Vilhjalmsson, B., Agerbo, E., Zandi, P.P., Hougaard, D.M., Nordentoft, M., Børglum, A.D., Werge, T., et al. (2020). Polygenic Risk and Progression to Bipolar or Psychotic Disorders Among Individuals Diagnosed With Unipolar Depression in Early Life. Am. J. Psychiatry 177, 936–943. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.19111195

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