I wrote about the latest attempt to sell genetic IQ prediction and why it is snake oil. A short 🧵:

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Delighted to have been awarded an International Joint Project grant from Royal Society of Edinburgh. This will fund 12 exchange visits between Institute for Regeneration and Repair and Universität Münster over the next 2 years. 👉 tinyurl.com/5n7fkvwa. Looking forward to enhancing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇩🇪 collaborations The Centre for Reproductive Health 🕺💃

Indeed interesting, however, not even the FSHB locus replicates for M-ALL

We have reached a sale agreement with Regeneron, a leading US-based biotechnology company, to carry forward 23andMe’s mission and maintain customer privacy protections. Read more about today’s announcement here: 23and.me/3ZoX2JT

Reversal of congenital #hypogonadotropic #hypogonadism in two brothers carrying a homozygous KISS1 frameshift mutation thelancet.com/journals/landi… #CHH #FREE to read

To the 23andMe Community, I am incredibly excited and humbled to share with you that TTAM Research Institute (TTAM), a new non—profit medical research organization that I founded and lead, has completed the acquisition of 23andMe.   I formed TTAM and pursued the acquisition of

❓Why do some men lose testosterone faster with age? Our new study in Eur J Endocrinology shows: 🧬 Genetics explain baseline levels, ⚠️ But not age-related decline. 💥 Comorbidities like CVD & cancer matter more. 📖 doi.org/10.1093/ejendo… #Testosterone #MensHealth #UKBiobank

#CoMICWednesday #EJECoMICs Ep 60: NEW Euro J Endocrinology paper: Role of genetics in the age-related testosterone decline in men: a UK Biobank study youtu.be/s8LFo8RR8f0 Full article doi.org/10.1093/ejendo… By @SimbaComics led by @rahulsagu6 European Society of Endocrinology (ESE)

Serum steroid metabolome in infancy 👶 Longitudinal LC–MS/MS in 189 healthy infants maps 16 hormones + enzyme activity. We deliver sex- & age-specific reference curves to support earlier diagnosis of steroidogen. disorders. tinyurl.com/mueu83vj European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) Endocrine Society

Gunnar from our lab joined EYES in Milano for the annual meeting presenting one of his projects on FSH action

🚀 New paper out: Using >22k UK Biobank scans, we built a deep learning model that achieves human-level accuracy for testis segmentation — enabling the first population-scale studies of male reproductive health. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.comp… #UKBiobank #MRI #DeepLearning

🧬💥 Do the genetics that make you develop a disease also help you survive it? Not much. Our new Nature Genetics including 9 disease and 7 biobanks shows: • Susceptibility variants ≠ survival • PRSs for onset weak at predicting survival • Lifespan PRS predicts survival better

Our work on sperm sequencing is now published! See below for: 🧑‍🔬Scientific tweetorial 📰 Accessible articles discussing implications for aging fathers [1/3] nature.com/articles/s4158…

Role of Genetics in the Age-Related Testosterone Decline in Men: A UK Biobank Study by Lynn Ogoniak Alexander Busch et al EJE Volume 193, Issue 2, August 2025 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ejendo… ESE Members free via 👉 my.ese-hormones.org #endocrinology #biobank #testosterone

Just finished an inspiring symposium — a full day devoted to the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) axis! Many thanks to Ken Ong (Cambridge) and Anders Juul (Copenhagen) for their insightful talks and to all participants for the stimulating discussions. Universität Münster

Most GWAS data come from adults. An amazing new resource from Japan (JECS) offers GWAS data on 1,148 traits from a birth cohort of 80,638 children. The traits range from pregnancy and neonatal outcomes to childhood diseases, and serial lab work, and anthropometrics.