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eimearekenny.bsky.social
Genomics, Computer Science, Medicine. Professor @ Mount Sinai in NYC. Director of Institute for Genomic Health. 🇮🇪 VMO
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📢 Excited to be an invited speaker at the @NovoNordiskFoundation Science Cluster Conference, "Genomic Mechanisms of Disease"! Join me to explore cutting-edge research in med & pop gen, ML models of biology, and translational therapeutics.🔬✨ #Genomics #AIinMedicine #GeneticResearch #Conference

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

📹🍿🧬 Check out @yunfeng-ruan.bsky.social's recent talk at the @broadinstitute.org, "Polygenic risk scores: method development and application" in our growing collection of videos on the @prsdiversity.bsky.social website primedconsortium.org/education#vi...

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Truveta has built a database of 120M de-identified EHRs for digital phenotyping—and now they're teaming up with Regeneron and Illumina to sequence 10M patients across 30 US health systems. 🧬 Major move for precision medicine! www.geekwire.com/2025/seattle...

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One month left until the CSHL Biology of Genomes abstract deadline! 👇👇👇 Where else can you dive into all things genomics? 🧬✨

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🚨 Calling human geneticists! 🚨 Featured Symposium & Interactive Workshop submissions for #ASHG2025 are OPEN! 🧬✨ Got cutting-edge research or ideas to share? Now’s the time to showcase them on a global stage. Spread the word & submit! 🌍📝 🔗 www.ashg.org/meetings/202... 1/ #HumanGenomics #ASHG25

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Thrilled to be a part of the Leena Peltonen School of Human Genomics this year -- an opportunity for PhD students to learn and interact 1:1 with many experts (and genuinely nice people) in the field! Apply by March 7th at: lpshg.org Program runs July 27-31 at the Wellcome Genome Campus, UK.

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🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 Led by Dr. Amy Kontorovich and Dr. Noura Abul-husn, our latest study in Genetics in Medicine explores “red flag” clinical features for hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv) associated with the TTR p.(Val142Ile) variant. 🫀🧬 1/

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

👇👇👇Highly recommend this for anyone eager to learn and network! #Genetics #Training #LeenaPeltonenSchool

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Labbies night out before we all go our different ways for the holidays!! 🎄#NYC

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Applications are now OPEN for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics GRC and GRS!! 🎉 🧬 📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025 📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025 📍 Portland, Maine @calliao.bsky.social and I are co-chairs for the GRS, with Shamil Sunyaev and @eimearekenny.bsky.social as the GRC chairs 👀 Links to apply below 👇

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Just posting this to #popgen Here's a link to my notes on population & quantitative genetics: github.com/cooplab/popg... Hoping to extend it more after the winter holidays, as I'm just finishing up teaching the undergrad version of class.

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Delighted to share that our paper on discovering selective sweeps with haplotype statistics in aDNA is now out in Nat. Comm! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Wonderful collaboration with Vagheesh Narasimhan, Devansh Pandey, and @mharris.bsky.social

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Admixture mapping (AM) or genome-wide association studies(GWAS)? Please, I'll have both, and so should you! Read our last preprint, led by @sineadyc.bsky.social, to learn why (or read the TL;DR version by @eimearekenny.bsky.social below). #SinaiGenHealth #HealthEquity #FutureHealth #Genomics

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Thrilled to share our perspective on recruitment and retention strategies to engage a diverse pediatric populations in genomics research in #AJHG today. This work highlights the importance of inclusive practices in genomic studies. 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 A new study led by Sinead Cullina (@sineadyc.bsky.social) @ #SinaiGenHealth dives deep into genetic association studies in diverse populations using admixture mapping (AM) & genome-wide association (GWAS). www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Here's what you need to know 🧵:

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Cholesterol crystals have long been recognized to have a role in atherosclerosis. Review charts this course & newer insights in how it triggers innate inflammatory response www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

Honored to work with I. Kullo & colleagues in advancing innovations and equity in genomic medicine via polygenic risk scores www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Check out the latest review on PRS assessment from the #PRIMEDConsortium 👇👇👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about Eric Turkheimer's recent book on "the nature-nurture debate", which should be of interest to people thinking not just about the genetics of behavior but complex traits more broadly. A 🧵:

submitted 113 days ago • 5 comments

To new beginnings 🥂

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Something really is happening here. Sci-twitter was a phenomenon and a loss. The stunning recent growth of Sci-sky shows how much we value this form of connectivity.

submitted 113 days ago • 26 comments

Heeelllloooo!!! Still figuring this out 👇

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