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Are you passionate about software development and eager to make a meaningful impact in healthcare? Join our team at FinnGen, one of the largest genetics research projects globally! Location: Helsinki, Finland FIMM HelsinkiUni University of Helsinki Apply by 16 Dec here⬇️: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/365…

Check out our (EmilP, Theresa Wimberley, and me) slightly biased 😀 News and Views out today in Nature Genetics , highlighting the importance of "selection bias" and "information bias" in genetic studies. #statgen #genepi #selectionbias eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Our new PRS paper is out! We introduce a method to create regularized ensemble PRS on GWAS sumstats. Individual-level data is no longer needed for sophisticated ensemble learning Zijie Zhao Stephen Dorn Paper📰:biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Software🧑‍💻:github.com/qlu-lab/PUMAS

New paper with Dingeman Wiertz “Brittle Bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations” - A threat about the main insights:

Honored that our work was selected for the cover of Nature Mental Health! We uncovered how DNA methylation links early childhood adversity & depression risk. Surprisingly, we found evidence of both risk AND resilience mechanisms 🧬 Read more: nature.com/articles/s4422…

"Gender Differences in Self-assessed Measures of Health”: M Smith-Johnson shows that nonbinary adults & younger trans men report ↑ rates of poor/fair health & calls for measures to capture “how stigma shapes health for marginalized groups.” RiceSociology ow.ly/OfB950UlaIp

Check out our new paper on gun carrying over the life course!

Million Veteran Program & FinnGen teams are pleased to release v1 meta-analysis of MVP, FinnGen and UKBB GWAS data. This first version includes ~300 binary disease definitions across >1.5 M individuals. Browse scans at: mvp-ukbb.finngen.fi

A strong case for focusing on the aggregate of GWAS signals rather than single variants. See our review on behavioral traits: joelvelasco.net/teaching/3334/…

🎉 Very excited to announce that The Dunn Lab website has a fresh new look to match our new home at Purdue University! Explore our research on preventing #depression, meet our growing team & discover opportunities to join us at thedunnlab.com #BoilerUp #AcademicChatter

gsMap paper online. Source code: github.com/JianYang-Lab/g…. Results visualisation website: yanglab.westlake.edu.cn/gsmap.

Our new sex-stratified #GWAS meta-analysis of major depression is now available as a pre-print in medRxiv medrxiv.org/content/10.110… A thread 🧵: QIMR Berghofer

A big week for genetics, omics, and precision medicine — so many exciting reads🧬 1⃣Circadian gene expression regulation by rhythmic genetic variants 2⃣In vivo tracking of ASO delivery in the brain 3⃣eQTL mapping vs. CRSPRi screening for detecting causal genes in GWAS loci

Check out our new OCD GWAS (53,660 cases and 2,044,417 controls) in Nature Genetics 🧬🧠 Genetic risk was associated with excitatory neurons in the cortex and hippocampus. There was much genetic overlap with anxiety, depression, and anorexia. Open access: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Fridman et al. show associations of reproductive phenotypes and educational attainment in heterozygotic carriers of pathogenic variants associated with recessive conditions. nature.com/articles/s4156…

A lot has changed in digital mental health since our 2021 review. Our 2025 review is designed to catch you up on all things apps, VR, AI, chatbots, implementation, equity, and lived experience voices. Free in World Psychiatry: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wp…

Two new postdoc positions in Computational/Statistical Genomics and Statistical Population Genetics, respectively, at the University of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/all-vacancies/… employment.ku.dk/all-vacancies/… . Please help us advertise.

Please check out our new manuscript extending the GREML methodology to quantify assortative mating and other forms of trait-associated genetic structures. Thanks to all our co-authors and the study participants! Here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Jiacheng Miao's PIGEON paper on GxE methodology is now published Nature Human Behaviour with a new title. In our view, this paper can reshape the study design for future complex trait GxE work. Paper📰doi.org/10.1038/s41562… Software🧑‍💻github.com/qlu-lab/GSUB

🧠 New Insights on reproductive and cognitive phenotypes in carriers of recessive pathogenic variants. This research highlights how even being a carrier of variants in genes associated with ID may impact cognitive development and academic outcomes. nature.com/articles/s4156…