Super excited to see this come out! It was a great collaborative effort - Congrats Kenny Westerman and team! Also grateful for resources like UK Biobank that empower this kind of large-scale systematic question-answering (and question-making).

Our genetic study of nearly 27,000 individuals, all with diabetes identified novel genes for diabetic kidney disease, supported by kidney transcriptomics and other kidney omics data. bit.ly/3R7SBh2 Joanne B. Cole FinnDiane Study #FolkhalsanRC #broadinstitute

Please join us in welcoming Joanne B. Cole to CU Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI)!

Hot off the presses, an AMP T2D-GENES study describing a new HbA1c polygenic score that could identify misdiagnoses of T2D. Find the underlying exome sequence results in the #CMDKP! Peter Dornbos Peter Dornbos Jason Flannick Joanne B. Cole nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thrilled to share that our manuscript on T2D genetic clustering is now published! Soft clustering analysis of type 2 diabetes loci identifies ten physiologically interpretable genetic clusters associated with distinct tissues and clinical outcomes. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

>3.5 million people with type 1 diabetes develop kidney disease. Our international team identified 32 biological risk factors; 21 biomarkers predicted development of kidney failure.” #RenalResearchNI Nature Communications Niina Sandholm Emma Dahlström Dr. Laura Smyth nature.com/articles/s4146…

Can genetic heritability act as an unbiased metric to compare different phenotype processing methods? Check out our (Kenny Westerman Alisa Manning et al) latest work applying this to my favorite phenotype (messy diet data). frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

US citizens or permanent residents from an under-represented group! You can contact any NIH-funded researcher you admire & suggest applying for this supplement to join their lab! High school thru postdoc/faculty. Many, like me, are happy to host! Pls RT grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/p…

Our department's Joanne B. Cole Lab and the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine are #hiring an Intermediate Information Science Professional to manage and lead large-scale biobank data and #genomic analysis. Learn more and apply at here: bit.ly/3nrxETJ

Incredible tour de force by the amazing Alicia Chagoya shows the value of TOPMed imputation in Latino cohorts. Thanks to all co-authors, Philip Schroeder, Ravi Mandla, Joanne B. Cole Miriam Udler Lukasz Szczerbinski Vicky Kaur Alisa Manning Jose Florez Aaron Leong and many more!

Think cilantro tastes like soap? It’s in your #genes. Joanne B. Cole, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical informatics, has identified 300 regions in the #genome that are associated with dietary preferences, opening up a future for personalized nutrition. news.cuanschutz.edu/dbmi/cu-resear…

Hate Brussels sprouts? Blame your #genes. Joanne B. Cole, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical informatics at the CU School of Medicine, was recently featured in @newsweek for identifying hundreds of regions in the genome associated with #dietary preference. newsweek.com/sweet-tooth-ha…

In an interview with the Broadcast Retirement Network's @TheMorningPulse, Joanne B. Cole, PhD, assistant professor at CU Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), discusses identifying regions in the genome associated with food preference and the future she sees for personalized nutrition. youtube.com/watch?v=-KUfdB…

Joanne Cole, PhD, assistant professor in CU Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at the CU School of Medicine, was featured in #9News today for her research identifying regions in the genome associated with dietary preferences! Joanne B. Cole #Diet

Joanne Cole, PhD, and Janani Ravi, PhD, have been named 2024 Translational Research Scholars! Joanne B. Cole will continue her work on the genetics of food preference, while Janani Ravi will focus on better understanding host responses to infectious diseases. news.cuanschutz.edu/dbmi/biomedica…

Joanne Cole (Joanne B. Cole), PhD, CU Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) assistant professor, will present, "Taste of Genetics," as part of the AuroraHistoryMuseum Speaker Series in July! She will share how genetics and food preference knowledge can help us eat better. Tickets are free! eventbrite.com/e/taste-of-gen…

New integrated approach identified candidate genes with diabetes-specific effects on kidney function, advancing the understanding of DKD pathophysiology. bit.ly/JASN0718 #ASNJASN #BasicResearch #GeneticResearch