If only I was a junior analyst! A great place with even better people on the team!

Our study mapping genetic determinants of inflammation-related proteins in 15,000 people now out in Nature Immunology rdcu.be/djb6y. Made possible by multi-national collaborative #SCALLOP consortium and leadership of Adam Butterworth #pQTL #MR #GWAS

It's been almost a month now and I am liking it more and more every day!

Have a look at the thread below for a summary of our recent paper on BRCA1 carriers in Orkney.

Cool topic, great people and interesting method!

Extremely proud to have this paper published with Nicola Pirastu providing evidence for hierarchical nature of food preferences. Feels a bit overwhelming to actually have been part of it!

Important collaborative work, with contributions from researchers MRC_HGU, including using data from ORCADES VIKING Genes
All genetic scores are provided under a CC BY license, see omicspred.org

I’m pleased to be an author on this Nature Genetics paper making excellent use of family datasets including VIKING Genes

Our SCALLOP Consortium GWAS of the ACE2 coronavirus receptor is now published in Circulation Circulation: ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116… Thanks to the 1st authors ZhiJian Yang and Erin Macdonald-Dunlop for their hard work and all the contributing cohorts for making this joint effort possible.🥳

We were tweeted about by Veera Rajagopal  ! Almost as exciting as publishing the paper! Thanks for a really nice summary of our work!

New Research Alert! 🚨🎉

Glycosylation is the process by which sugar structures - called glycans - attach to proteins.

Sadly, we don't understand the process well or how it can affect health.

New research on our volunteer data irons out some details: ed.ac.uk/viking/researc…

Yesterday was a great day - another favourite paper just came out - see the thread for details!

A favourite as this time I had a different role - I was privileged to accompany Arianna on her journey from a student to a scientist! What amazing process it was! Well done, Arianna!

Future vaccine deployment deserves to be informed! Check out how we used Mendelian randomisation to unravel complex risk factors for infection and detect potential target groups, using EBV as a model 🦠💉 pathogen Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) Nicola Pirastu medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

If you like coloc, but hate making a single causal variant assumption, check out this update now published journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a… with the package available from CRAN cran.r-project.org/package=coloc and vignette chr1swallace.github.io/coloc/articles….

So pleased to see our paper describing a model of the #raredisease Brittle Cornea Syndrome #BCS caused by mutations in Zfp469 out now DMM Journal. doi.org/10.1242/dmm.04…. Dr Amy Findlay veronique vitart MRC_HGU #eyegenetics

Our total genetic contribution assessment (TGCA) paper is published today in Nature Communications Congratulations to Ting Li for the excellent work!

Our discovery of 4 human genetic variants underlying life-threatening illness in Covid-19 is past peer review and has just been published: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Here's what we found: (1/n)

Really happy to finally introduce what we found with 2-sample Mendelian Randomization between dietary traits and blood metabolites!

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A recent pre-print by Erola Pairó Castiñeira dr_sara_c Lucija Klaric Andrew Bretherick Konrad Rawlik ... Kenneth Baillie describes a GWAS in critically ill #COVID19 patients from the UK. Genetic associations from COVID-19 HGI were used to replicate(Table 2) & meta-analyze(Table 3)
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

We have found some robust new discoveries about Covid-19 in GenOMICC, which have potential therapeutic relevance. Readers outside of the genomics community will want to wait for peer review before acting on these findings. Preprint here for specialists:
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…