🧬 #BIGxWeek Trivia Question 2 🧬 What is the name of the group which was initiated in 2010 in order to study African genomics? Respond here 👇🏿👇🏾👇🏽 forms.gle/pQaNDDW7EHe6Ak…

Happy Indigenous Futures Day 🔮✊🏽❤️

Very excited and honored to give a plenary talk at #ASHG2021 tomorrow on my work with John Novembre titled “Investigating relative contributions to complex trait architecture from sequence elements originating across multiple evolutionary timescales” @ 1.40-2.00pm ET

Come to my #ASHG21 poster today! We develop a novel statistical approach that leverages admixed genomes and find that causal variant effect sizes differ between populations. Monday Oct 18, 5:30-6:30pm EDT, PrgmNr 3719, with co-authors Roshni Patel Tim L. Assimes, MD PhD @sbmontgom Jonathan Pritchard

I'm giving a talk at #ASHG21 tomorrow (Wed) at 10:45 am -- my whole session looks awesome! Links to all Parker lab posters and talks threaded here ⬇️

Thrilled to share my first paper from my PhD, advised by Jonathan Pritchard and in close collaboration with my co-first author Shaila Musharoff, on testing for differences in causal variant effect sizes across populations. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/9)

✨ Excited to share our most recent work on population genetics in Southwest India! ✨ 🗣️ We ask: What is the relationship between genetic & oral histories in this region? 🧬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵 A thread with some highlights …

Preprint up: Community co-design of the Stanford Health Care Preventive Genomics Program- partnering with community members to build a clinical program for polygenic scores. Big thanks to our community participants and co-authors for their expertise & time tinyurl.com/SHCPGP 1/5

Have you ever wondered about whether epistasis shapes human quantitative traits? Is chasing it a fool's errand? Thanks to the wonderful postdoc program ICERM, Lorin Crawford and I have dropped another single on bioRxiv, co-led by Greg Darnell & @SLiMulateshady. 1/4

#BIGxWeek starts next week with a roll call on October 3rd! Are you ready, #blackingeneticsrollcall?

UChicago's Genetics DEI committees have put together an online panel to give prospective students the chance to chat w a diverse panel of PhD students and faculty - they'll share application info & app fee waivers so spread the word! 🎉

Thanks for celebrating #BIGxWeek with us, ACMG! Check out the link in the tweet below to some FREE #BIGxScience articles on Black women and breast cancer.

It was a pleasure to work with and learn from Jedidiah Carlson @HennLab dana r al-hindi and nature in the processing of writing this commentary: nature.com/articles/d4158…. Thanks especially to Jedidiah Carlson for suggesting a lead photo centering the victims of hate crimes by white nationalists. 1/3

cannot stop thinking about this paper -- the misuse and misinterpretation of genetics research is a hard and complicated problem but it is not hard and complicated to commit to having real, honest discussions about the societal implications of our work!

Are you an undergrad thinking about grad school in a biology-related field? Do you identify as a member of a historically excluded group in STEM, grow up with in a disadvantaged background, or experience an ongoing disability? Come join our amazing UCSF PROPEL community!🧵

1/8 25 years ago, today (Oct 24, 1997), 'Gattaca' was released. Me & Doc Edge chose to commemorate the event w/ a technical perspective recently published in GENETICS Genetics Society of America Here I'll just post several items related to the broader project. academic.oup.com/genetics/advan…

Are you interested in using deep learning for genomic predictions? Join my lab! please RT

super excited to share our new paper on polygenic epistasis! we introduce a new model and show how structured statistical epistasis can help us study complex trait biology. huge thanks to my friend and lab-mate jerome, and my mentor Andy Dahl! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Out now in Cell! doi.org/10.1016/j.cell… Historically marginalized student representation drastically drops from undergrad to grad school. Are underrepresented students unqualified? Or are grad school admissions unnecessarily confusing, costly, & gatekeeping? 1/🧵

Excited to share our latest contribution to mapping genes for traits using phylogenies #PhyloG2P #PhyloGWAS Molecular Biology and Evolution! PhyloAcc-GT incorporates gene tree variation and improved ease of use ! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/do… phyloacc.github.io Tim Sackton, Gregg Thomas