Happy to share our work showing that circulating proteins can predict COVID-19 severity 🥳 Our study in Scientific Reports identifies biomarkers to improve patient care! #COVID19 #biomarkers Thanks to Sirui Zhou, Edgar Gonzalez-Kozlova, and brent richards! nature.com/articles/s4159… 🧵:

Targeting hepatitis B vaccine escape using immunogenetics in Bangladeshi infants dlvr.it/Srxyly

Two more days before the deadline, apply now 👇🏻#postdoc #bioinformatics

On my way to ASHG ASHG if you are interested to know on the HLA landscape in large Middle-Eastern population visit me at my poster PB4477 Qatar Genome Program | برنامج قطر جينوم Research Consortium

171 pages. I don’t want to criticize this specific guideline, whose content i’m sure is top notch. But sometimes I wonder if in our attempt to guide physicians on the management of all diseases under the sun, we may not have forgotten the bottom line.

Epidemiology is hard. Causal inference is hard. Easy to reach wrong conclusions even with the best of intents. Thanks to Gus Hamilton for leading this. Hopefully the headaches we had trying to piece this together will spare some for others.

Just a warning for researchers using DNAnexus, Inc. UK Biobank RAP: check your billing carefully. They will double, triple, even quadruple bill you. And then not answer your messages, even when you send full reports proving they overcharged you.

Just realized that when the sample size is not written in the abstract, it’s usually a bad sign for the rest. Probably time to rewrite some abstracts…

Another beautiful piece from Guillaume Butler-Laporte Who else routinely discards MHC in genomic analyses as I do? Maybe it is time to face the dragon! medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

La RAMQ paye pour une chirurgie bariatrique pour perdre du poids, mais ne paye pas pour un médicament en injection hebdomadaire pour perdre ce même poids. Brillant. Si vous voulez perdre du poids, commencez par en prendre. La ramq paiera /s Christian Dubé François Legault

Due its LD complexity, we tend to discard the HLA locus when performing genetic analyses🧬 👉A new colocalization method developed for the HLA locus seems to address this complexity medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

@Communauto pouvez-vous dire au chauffeur de votre auto ci-dessous de dégager de devant mon entrée de garage svp?

Honoré de recevoir la bourse doctorale du FRQ - secteur Nature et technologies. I am grateful to my supervisor, Guillaume Butler-Laporte , committee members, Satoshi Yoshiji , Dr. Christoph Borchers , Dr. Robert Sladek, and Quantitative Life Sciences for your support. It will support me to uncover the causality of plasma proteins in MASLD.

Congratulations to our colleagues in Infectious Diseases with 4 FRQ awards. Todd C. Lee Guillaume Butler-Laporte and Drs. Lawandi & Costiniuk (not on Twitter-X)

We do Mendelian randomization, expecting that randomization at conception enables causal inference. But even if nature really does (partial) randomization, have we broken it? Our perspective on biases in MR due to the data or methods used Endocrine Society Journals doi.org/10.1210/clinem…

And the first senior author paper is finally in the bag!

Does piperacillin-tazobactam increase mortality risk compared to cefepime? Collider bias and the importance of assumptions in instrumental variable analyses ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 bit.ly/44nLdFu

Wait, so the guy responsible for lucha and BJJ is the same person?!? Absolute legend.