Mark McCarthy
@markmccarthyoxf
Using human genetics to advance knowledge & find new therapies. Otherwise: Liverpool FC, cricket, cinema, seafood, travel. Now at Genentech but views mine.
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01-06-2009 07:22:23
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When I thought I was done with the GWAS stories of 2023 and I should wrap up, stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE) dropped yet another great paper from his team. How can I resist? It's storytelling time. In this hot-off-the-press Nature paper, Marlena Fejzo et al. uncover an absolutely fascinating
Tricia Day I, too, am determined to do the very least I can....
We are proud to announce that our facilities are fully open to provide genomics sequencing services with no profit motive in Africa! Our objective is to help to advance scientific research, biotech, vaccine, therapy and diagnostics development - A short 🧵 ceri.org.za/news/?token=725
Iain Mathieson Weird outcome where the only ancestry visualizations of AoU (as far as I'm aware) are the above UMAP or the below PCA plot where hard genetic clusters are, for some reason, labeled as ethnicities
There’s a book to be written on how Sunak got to a place where his Rwanda policy with its unworkable, cruel, expensive, law breaking nationally embarrassing contradictions- Rwanda is safe but it’s a deterrent etc, etc- became his make or break policy in a country where public
In 2023 I led negotiations involving 9 corporations & 24 African institutions that trained 408 African scientists in genomics & bioinformatics. That effort, with >100 African authors, is now published in Nature Genetics. Thanks to all contributors: nature.com/articles/s4158…
You’re on, Polly Toynbee ! Here’s hoping. It’s a very good sign that a dedicated Child Poverty Unit has been set up in Downing St. However, the first thing any of the child poverty campaigning bodies invited to the unit will recommend is the lifting of the two-child benefit cap.
