Very nice work of my colleagues, go check it out !

We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Nina Mars (Nina Mars), Dr. Arafath (Rafa) Najumudeen (Arafath (Rafa) Najumudeen) and Dr. Simone Rubinacci (Simone Rubinacci) as the newest FIMM-EMBL Group Leaders HiLIFE_Helsinki University of Helsinki! helsinki.fi/en/hilife-hels…

Looking forward to join the FIMM as a group leader! Will have open positions for PhD students and postdocs, get in touch if interested!

Just out now! Our pheWAS-based clustering of instrumental variables can reveal heterogeneous causal effects & confounding. Plus facilitates the interpretation of the underlying mechanisms. We apply it to the BMI->education relationship. Spearheaded by Liza Darrous

Check it out 🧵👇! Our PWC-MR approach aims to tackle the some of the sources of bias that affect MR causal estimation: heterogenous causal effects & confounding. rdcu.be/dyJ3h Often studied separately, PWC-MR has shown that classifying instruments into clusters...(1/n)

Only two weeks left to submit your abstract to EMGM 2024. If you are into statistical genetics, this is the conference to go! Stellar invited speaker lineup: MarioniGroup Matti Pirinen Rebecca Richmond Doug Speed and Gosia Borczyk

Congratulations to my colleague Barbara Mota on her outstanding first last-author publication! 🌟👏

16p11.2 BP4-5 #CNVs are associated with broad and highly heterogeneous phenotypic alterations, but can we learn about the mechanisms behind this #pleiotropy? 🧬🕵🏻‍♀️ This is the question that our new preprint addresses!👇🏻🧵 rb.gy/qx6xjc #RareDisease #GenomicDisorder 💫

New paper introducing RESHAPE, a method simulating genomes of hypothetical descendants that can be used as reference panels safeguarding against re-identification threats. Read more: nature.com/articles/s4358…. Great work done by Théo Cavinato!

📢The 23rd International Gene Forum is bringing stellar speakers from around the globe to Tartu on 24-25 September 2024! 🚀 Full list of speakers & info: geneforum.ee/speakers/ Incl: Stephen Kingsmore Naomi Wray Peter Visscher Tuuli Lappalainen Andrea Gaedigk Julia Stingl Zoltán Kutalik

Thrilled to share my first paper as first author on telomere biology, now published in Genome Biology: rdcu.be/dIhVs Following reviewer feedback, the manuscript now includes extensive sensitivity analyses and replication with independent telomere length data 🧬

This is the journal cover image of Diabetologia, Feb 2009 issue (link.springer.com/journal/125/vo…). Posing for the photograph, holding 3 kg of lard bought fresh from a local store, were Tim Frayling (Tim Frayling) and Andrew Hattersley (Andrew Hattersley), diabetes researchers atf the

Robin J Hofmeister on Understanding nurture via untransmitted genetic alleles: Method to infer non-transmitted alleles. #eshg2024

In room 6/7, C28 Machine learning and Statistic, an impressive talk from Robbin Hofmeister Zoltán Kutalik group, early career award candidate, talking about inferring non-transmited alleles from close relatives and their further effects on offspring education by using MR. #eshg2024

Such a clear presentation, great work Robin Hofmeister! For all eshg_young check it to see how to present complex concepts in a simple and effective way!

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

Robin Hofmeister presented a miraculous method that takes data from siblings and more distant relatives and reconstructs the effect of *non-transmitted* alleles on phenotypes. The new method hugely increases sample size in the UK biobank. apps.m-anage.com/eshg2024/en-GB…

Estonian Biobank Amazing! congratulations!

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!

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