Super excited to see my first first-author paper on AJHG, in which we created FactorGo as a scalable tool to learn shared genetic components across traits using thousands of GWAS summary stats. Words can't describe my gratitude towards co-mentorship by Nicholas Mancuso and Steven Gazal

Feeling FOMO big time seeing all the #ASHG2023 posts, sadly I’m not there this year! 🥲 My PhD student Jolien Rietkerk is there though and she has a poster (PB4102), go say hi to her and she can tell you about how PRS can be used to find pathways (using method by Andy Dahl)✨

Dear statgen friends at #ASHG2023 #ASHG23, my lab is #hiring #phds #postdocs to work on heterogeneity and trajectories of psychiatric disorders using EHR/cohorts across US/Europe/Asia (incl. data from PGC Consortium), lots of cool stuff to be done! Please RT and reach out via DM!

Excited to share our latest work at #ASHG23 poster PB4102 today! Come talk to me about psychiatric disorder heterogeneity and Coordinated Epistasis!

New paper by Andy Dahl and I on phenotype integration improving GWAS power while preserving specificity is now out in Nature Genetics 🎉 thank you all collaborators and reviewers! nature.com/articles/s4158…

My student Lianyun_Huang’s first first-author paper came online pre-proof in Biological Psychiatry! 🎉 (Open access to come) She compared the genetics of current MDD symptoms assessed through PHQ9 and lifetime symptoms assessed through CIDI-SF, and found meaningful differences.

This paper complements the findings of a recently published paper on in- vs out-of-episode MDD symptoms by Ken Kendler et al, which shows that depressive criteria occurring outside depressive episodes are less heritable than those occurring within. tinyurl.com/56nfvsu3

❤️ Many many thanks ❤️

Open access pdf of Lianyun_Huang’s paper on the genetic differences between different assessments (instruments, timescale) of MDD symptoms is now online with Biological Psychiatry: tinyurl.com/3r8ktw5u

Check out my latest preprint with Federica Fermani and Na Cai: “Molecular and neural mechanisms of behavioural integration in the extended-amygdala”, now on biorxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

We are hiring!! Interested in how emotion affects social interactions? Interplay between neuropeptide and neurotransmitters? Ca2+ imaging + behaviors 🐭 Join us as a PhD student 🚀 Application details👇👇 Please RT or DM if you know someone interested 🙏 fens.org/careers/job-ma…

What a great city and fantastic community #BGA2024. If you want to know more about the difference between MDD symptoms assessed by CIDI-SF and PHQ9, and their usage in studying the genetics of MDD, come talk to me in the poster session at P2.05.

And if you want to know more about the brilliant work of Jolien Rietkerk, come to the auditorium at 16:20. :D