Happy to share env-MR-MEGA - first in our suite of environment-adjusted #GWAS methods

Use summary-level data to quantify environmental and ancestral heterogeneity

Amazing teamwork with Siru_Wang, Oyesola, Abram Kamiza, Michele Ramsay, Andrew Morris, Tinashe Chikowore, Segun Fatumo

ESHG 2024 app is now available! Download the #eshg2024 app including the programme, speakers, floor plans, etc. now. Interested in participating? Register for online or in-person participation today.
2024.eshg.org/myconference/c…

What are genetic effects of #ADHD on brain growth? 🧬🧠This study found an interaction between prenatal stress and PGS-ADHD on cortical thickness
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38538956/
Great work by Mónica López Vicente, Tonya White & team

clumping & splitting are both important in genetic epidemiology - another nice example 👇

The heterogeneous genetic architectures of orofacial clefts: Trends in Genetics cell.com/trends/genetic…

Messaging all immunologists who are excited about the potential of large-scale genome editing to understand mechanisms underlying inflammatory bowel disease - this postdoctoral fellowship with @gosiatrynka and I may be right up your street!

The Human Genetics Programme Wellcome Sanger Institute is looking for three postdocs to each lead on one of several cool projects co-mentored by two faculty, including PIs at Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)-Cambridge (@hilsomartin Adam Butterworth Mike Inouye Gosia Trynka and me).

See: tinyurl.com/yh5euwrk.

Using a randomized experiment involving 24,702 people in 176 isolated Honduran villages, researchers documented how the process of social contagion can be optimized and used to enhance human welfare.

Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/6ON

📢📢📢Today the last part of the Introduction to Functional Genomics webinar series takes place !🧬Carol Bult Carol Bult from The Jackson Laboratory will talk about Mouse Genomics Informatics. The #webinar series is organized by The Jackson Laboratory, AfSHGenetics -YIF, eshg_young.

New course led by Francesca Forzano and Angus Clarke
Covering crucial topics for #genetics research and practice that are usually neglected
More information: eshg.org/covering-the-g…

How quickly and how tall you grow during puberty is genetically linked to long-term health conditions, according to a new study from @UniofSurrey and Penn: tinyurl.com/mryn4b9t

Max Lu #health Inga Prokopenko

Clinical heterogeneity in #ADHD is huge! What's the genetic contribution to this? 🧬🧠
Different profiles of polygenic risk scores for psychiatric and related phenotypes can distinguish different subgroups.
Isabell Brikell Sonja LaBianca Andrew Schork
nature.com/articles/s4158…

These webinars are co-organized by eshg_young & AfricanSocHumGenet AfSHGenetics Young Investigator Forum (YIF). Hope you enjoy!

Join us for the next part of our Introduction to Functional Genomics webinar series !🧬Today we delve into designing functional genetics models using genome editing resources🎤Meet our esteemed speakers: Celina São José from i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde and Justin McDonough from The Jackson Laboratory

We found that SCZ patients exhibited higher genetic predisposition to SCZ (OR = 1.75), and lower polygenic burden for high BMI (OR = 0.88) and C-reactive protein (OR = 0.88) compared to controls. But still... 👇

Excited to share our recent paper in The Lancet Reg Health-Europe exploring the effect of genetics and antipsychotic treatment on metabolic syndrome in #schizophrenia using real-world EHR data from Estonian Biobank thelancet.com/journals/lanep…

🥗🤰Recent study on maternal diet showed that higher maternal prenatal fiber intake was associated with lower offspring ADHD symptom. Great work by Tetyana Zayats and her team! linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S…

🧬🧠📚Want to learn more about the genetic and phenotypic similarity across major psychiatric disorders? Check out this recent systematic review by the Sebastien Jacquemont team: nature.com/articles/s4139…

Discussion of nutrient sensing in beta cells hosted by the(sugar)science. Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

‘’Mendelian Randomization - what it was, what it is, and what it should become' talk UCL Health of the Public with a discussion chaired by Dr Adam Rutherford recording is now up ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/FlkD… Will tweet a thread about this at a later date