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On the x-axis is every human gene, ranked by number of publications containing mention of the gene name. Lots left to discover...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

We're hiring a postdoc to help shape our autism research program; please consider applying. www.23andme.com/careers/jobs...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

"the science of extreme longevity continues as an immense joke." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...

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We're looking for a talented statistical geneticist to come work with us! www.23andme.com/careers/jobs...

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We're looking for a talented statistical geneticist to come work with us! www.23andme.com/careers/jobs...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Humans tend to inherently believe that context matters. But context doesn’t seem to matter all that much in genetics. Epistasis between mutations doesn’t seem to influence their stability in this amazing saturation mutagenesis paper. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Good news, Altmetric has now started watching BlueSky for mentions of publications. And by the way, provides an easy comparison between this and the old site for a recent preprint of mine which I posted simultaneousl at both. Numbers speak by themselves !

submitted 86 days ago • 8 comments

Yesterday was a hard day at 23andMe, and we said goodbye to a number of tremendously talented colleagues. If people have job openings in the genetics space that they'd like me to share with the impacted folks, please do post here.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Today seems like a good day to share this Scientific American story on how vaccines have saved more lives throughout history than any other intervention www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

submitted 112 days ago • 54 comments

Hello #ASHG 2024!

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I want to try something new at #ASHG24 this year: I'm going to block some time on Friday afternoon to meet with any trainees who would be interested to chat on any topic.

submitted 118 days ago • 2 comments

Long COVID #GWAS preprint identifies #HLA class II associations | #23andMe www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

I made a starter pack full of statistical genetics (adjacent) scientists. it covers all flavours of behaviour, psychiatric, social science and population genetics people. One click follow all of em! let me know if I missed key people!

submitted 160 days ago • 11 comments

In the latest edition of "Huh, I didn't expect that to work", our latest paper shows that LLMs can outperform existing methods for identifying causal genes in genome-wide association studies. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 269 days ago • 2 comments

I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750). To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.

submitted 370 days ago • 134 comments

Unfortunately, the rate at which researchers are expressing disdain for the people who do the hard work of scientific publishing, education, policy has increased. It's just validating the critique of academic science as elitist. It needs to stop. Here's my column: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 391 days ago • 10 comments

Science making progress on the important questions! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

submitted 407 days ago • 0 comments

A real moonshot project in biomedical research would be a decisive legal, regulatory and IT effort to really make data access work for researchers across the world. It's not as sexy as AI, CRISPR, or ginormous sequencing projects, but more transformative and better bang for the buck.

submitted 457 days ago • 8 comments

Is there a list of evolutionary “mistakes” but for the genome, not just physiology? That is things that came to be but aren’t good for long term fitness

submitted 473 days ago • 3 comments

Our paper, showing PRS are predictive of incident disease - not just classifiers of existing disease: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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This is just a filter I’m holding, not a lens, so that’s the actual angular size of the sun in the photo. I’m always a little unnerved to realize how small the sun is when you take away all the glare.

submitted 501 days ago • 82 comments

This is a really important study that gives at least a partial answer to a question that I've got since the earliest GWAS: do susceptibility alleles affect progression? The answer for these diseases is a pretty strong "No" for _mortality_, which may or may not be a good surrogate for progression 1/n

submitted 502 days ago • 2 comments

Is the genetics of disease susceptibility and progression shared? 🤷‍♂️ We look at this question within a global biobank collaboration across 10 major diseases

submitted 502 days ago • 2 comments

Latest from Xilin Jiang, Alkes Price, Gil McVean and co 👉 Age-dependent topic modeling of comorbidities in UK Biobank identifies disease subtypes with differential genetic risk www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 506 days ago • 0 comments

I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics: web.stanford.edu/group/pritch... "An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"

submitted 514 days ago • 8 comments

ATTENTION BLUESKY HAS FIXED THREADS THIS IS NOT A DRILL

submitted 519 days ago • 55 comments

Free test ordering starts up again today. www.covid.gov/tests

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Excited about our new paper! We developed a DL model to predict 1y mortality in the full Finnish population using A LOT of longitudinal information. This “digital aging marker” is very accurate, but with some interesting and important caveats www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 526 days ago • 1 comment

I went to a place

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This is absolutely gorgeous and kinda kind-blowing. A reconstruction of the great city of Tenochtitlán. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

submitted 541 days ago • 2 comments

Fingers crossed this is the new place for Science Twitter. Nth time lucky?

submitted 550 days ago • 0 comments