Insightful talk by ⁦Robin Hofmeister⁩ on inferring non-transmited alleles from close relatives to explore the effect of nurture on complex traits such as offspring education in ⁦⁦⁦UK Biobank⁩ #ESHG2024

Bye bye, Berlin and #ESHG2024! Thanks to ⁦European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) for an awesome conference! My highlights: talks on complete genomes & SVs, Miriam & Robin’s excellent talks, lunch in the sun with ⁦maris alver, fun with ⁦⁦Tuuli Lappalainen⁩ & awesome colleagues ⁦PacBio⁩ party.

This brilliant scientist was one of the superheroes behind my presentations at ESHG2024 (while preparing for her thesis defense)!🤩Congratulations Dr Maarja Jõeloo! Look forward to working with you in the next stage of your career 💜

🥁Sting in June, Bryan Adams in July, #GeneForum 2024 in September - come check out #Tartu2024 geneforum.ee

Täna on suur päev! #MinuGeenivaramu teadusportaal on lõpuks avatud kõigile geenidoonoritele 🥳 portaal.geenidoonor.ee

Today we opened a web portal for our 210,000 biobank participants! We currently return results on: - Genetic & cumulative risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes; - Pharmacogenetics reports; - Ancestry information; - Fun facts, e.g.caffeine metabolism & % Neanderthal.

Meil on väga hea meel, et huvi nii suur on! Enam kui 22000 geenidoonorit on juba sisse loginud ja hetkel on surve väga suur. Kellel praegu ei õnnestu sisse saada (eriti Smart-ID’ga), palun proovige homme uuesti.

Hundreds of Estonians did not sleep tonight🤩 Over 35,000 participants have signed in to our Estonian Biobank portal by now, peaking at 7000+ per hour after the evening news. Some hick-ups with the digital signing of consent forms at peak capacity but restored thanks to our IT-team!

50,000 sisse logimist esimese kahe päevaga!! Te olete imelised, Eesti rahvas! 💕 PS. Täitke ikka küsimustikke ka, siis teame, mida tulevikus paremini teha.

60 000 🙌 Aidake siis nädalavahetusel vanaemal ja vanaisal ka portaal.geenidoonor.ee sisse logida! 💜

When CYP2D6 is your favourite gene, you want to explore (and phase) structural variants & uncover deeper insights from the genome -> 10K genomes with #longreads Estonian Biobank

"While much of Europe is obsessing over this year’s European Football Championships, many Estonians — whose team didn’t qualify — are absorbed in their own genomes." And they have pretty awesome genomes, I must say! Read the full story by Ewen Callaway: nature.com/articles/d4158…

80 000 geenidoonorit on juba #Geenivaramu portaalis tutvunud oma geeniraportitega! Paljud küsivad, kuidas saada geenidoonoriks. Hetkel uusi doonoreid vastu võtta ei saa, kuid jäta oma e-posti aadress ja anname teada, kui võimalus avaneb: portaal.geenidoonor.ee/soovin-doonori…

A Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council just bombed a children’s’ hospital in Kyiv. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. History will remember.

More than 80% of cardiovascular disease has been estimated to be preventable by lifestyle factors. The latest update for cancer from modifiable risk factors is ~40% acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.33… CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians Farhad Islami, MD PhD Emily C. Marlow Blake Thomson Marji McCullough Ahmedin Jemal

After a high dose of psilocybin, the brain desynchronizes at a massive scale, causing loss of our sense of self, time, and space. This may drive the burst of plasticity caused by psychedelics. The next day, brain activity has largely returned to normal, but an echo remains – a

Preprint of our work on interpreting neural networks for complex trait GWAS is now online. Hope you enjoy the read and feel free to reach out for any comments and suggestions. Lili Milani Flora Jay arxiv.org/abs/2407.18811

Smooth transition back to work genomicstartu summer days 🤩

Thanks Jelle Vlaanderen for bringing our team at genomicstartu up to speed with #exposome research. Really look forward to integrating exposome data into Estonian Biobank 🌎expanseproject.eu theguardian.com/environment/ng…

Thank you Bolt for the very customer friendly & fair pricing of your services! Had to grab a #boltdrive unexpectedly and didn’t have time to look into whether a package would be cheaper. 🫶