MS: Shrinkage estimation. Work with 12 different people. I'm obsessed with shrinkage. What's shrinkage? #probgen18 varianceexplained.org/r/empirical_ba…

Fun work on CREST by Ying Qiao and Jens Sannerud. Ability to infer pedigree relationships for second degree relatives - aunt/uncles, half-siblings, etc. Also sex-specific maps uncover if half-siblings or grandparent-child pairs are paternal or maternal biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats to Ying Qiao, Jens Sannerud et al. -- the CREST method for classifying sex-specific relative types (e.g., paternal half-siblings, maternal grandparent-grandchild pairs) is now online! authors.elsevier.com/a/1cKn-geWy2CN

On the last day of 2020, CREST is out AJHG 😃

Announcing web-based HAPI, a tool that reconstructs data for one parent using data from 3+ siblings and their other parent. Blog post at hapi-dna.org/2021/03/recons…. Paper on this and Ying Qiao's work to reconstruct data for both parents (given other relatives) later this year.