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LATINO Genomics Project

Eligibility Criteria

If you or your child have had, or think you might have, OCD and have at least one grandparent who identifies as Latino/Hispanic ancestry, we invite you to take our survey here.

State

Virtual

Website

https://orit.research.bcm.edu/latinostudy/en

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina, are conducting an international study of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in Latin Americans, Hispanics and Brazilians.

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The Genetics of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Latin Americans

Eligibility Criteria

Has at least 1 grandparent who identifies as Latino/Hispanic
Is 7-89 years old
Has experienced symptoms of OCD now or in the past. No official OCD diagnosis is required

For more information or to participate, please click here: https://redcap.research.bcm.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=4EFT77APTME3MLRA

State

Texas

Baylor College of Medicine and the University of North Carolina would like to present the Latin American Trans-Ancestry Initiative for OCD Genomics, or LATINO. Led by Drs. James Crowley and Eric Storch, this new study seeks to collect the world’s largest ancestrally diverse sample of OCD cases (N = 5,000 Latin American individuals).

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