Aysu Okbay
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Aysu Okbay
@aysuo.bsky.social
· May 20
An Updated Polygenic Index Repository: Expanded Phenotypes, New Cohorts, and Improved Causal Inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653986v1
PGI Repository v2.0 preprint out! A 🧵 on the main results and updates @robel-alemu.bsky.social @paturley.bsky.social @alextisyoung.bsky.social
Reposted by Aysu Okbay
Me and @aysuo.bsky.social did a thing. Give it a listen!
Exciting news! Today marks the start of the podcast Born and Raised - produced by the ESSGN. In this very first episode, our hosts have visited @dr-appie.bsky.social in his office at the AUMC. Shocking revelations ensue! Find it on essgn.podbean.com or on the podcast platform of your choice.
1. Abdel Abdellaoui on social science genetics | Born and Raised
In this very first episode of Born and Raised, hosts Rafael and Aysu visit behavior geneticist Abdel Abdellaoui in his office at the Amsterdam University Medical Center. They talk about the nature of ...
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January 23, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Me and @aysuo.bsky.social did a thing. Give it a listen!
Reposted by Aysu Okbay
Excited to share our preprint on PGI portability across ancestries—now on bioRxiv. With co-authors @aysuo.bsky.social, @paturley.bsky.social, @alextisyoung.bsky.social, and @Dan_J_Benjamin. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Thread below for details.
September 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Excited to share our preprint on PGI portability across ancestries—now on bioRxiv. With co-authors @aysuo.bsky.social, @paturley.bsky.social, @alextisyoung.bsky.social, and @Dan_J_Benjamin. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Thread below for details.
PGI Repository v2.0 preprint out! A 🧵 on the main results and updates @robel-alemu.bsky.social @paturley.bsky.social @alextisyoung.bsky.social
An Updated Polygenic Index Repository: Expanded Phenotypes, New Cohorts, and Improved Causal Inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653986v1
May 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
PGI Repository v2.0 preprint out! A 🧵 on the main results and updates @robel-alemu.bsky.social @paturley.bsky.social @alextisyoung.bsky.social
Preprint just out about the genetically heterogenous effects of an early childhood intervention in Colombia. Key findings below. Come see my talk at #ESSGN Bristol if you wanna hear more!
📣 I’m delighted to share a new working paper that’s been years in the making:
🧬 “ #Gene × #Environment Interactions: Polygenic Scores and the Impact of an Early Childhood Intervention in Colombia”
👉🏻 Available here as @hceconomics.bsky.social WP: humcap.uchicago.edu/RePEc/hka/wp...
🧬 “ #Gene × #Environment Interactions: Polygenic Scores and the Impact of an Early Childhood Intervention in Colombia”
👉🏻 Available here as @hceconomics.bsky.social WP: humcap.uchicago.edu/RePEc/hka/wp...
May 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Preprint just out about the genetically heterogenous effects of an early childhood intervention in Colombia. Key findings below. Come see my talk at #ESSGN Bristol if you wanna hear more!
A great opportunity to work with @alextisyoung.bsky.social if you're interested in methods development!
I am recruiting a quantitative/computational postdoc to my group at UCLA. This is a great opportunity to work on foundational theory, methods, and software in statistical genetics. Link to apply: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10275. Please repost!
April 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A great opportunity to work with @alextisyoung.bsky.social if you're interested in methods development!
Reposted by Aysu Okbay
So happy to finally see this paper out in @natcomms.nature.com. rdcu.be/ehQsd “Correcting for volunteer bias in GWAS increases SNP effect sizes and heritability estimates”. A thread on our findings!
Correcting for volunteer bias in GWAS increases SNP effect sizes and heritability estimates
Nature Communications - Genetic studies may be biased due to volunteer-based biobanks. Using UK Biobank, the authors apply inverse probability weighting based on UK Census data, finding that...
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April 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
So happy to finally see this paper out in @natcomms.nature.com. rdcu.be/ehQsd “Correcting for volunteer bias in GWAS increases SNP effect sizes and heritability estimates”. A thread on our findings!
Reposted by Aysu Okbay
🔊Next conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) in Bristol, 22-23 May.
✅Keynote by @michellemeyer.bsky.social
✅Panel on the current frontier of MR w/ George Davey-Smith (Bristol), Dalton Conley (Princeton), and Alice Carter (Novo-Nordisk).
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✅Keynote by @michellemeyer.bsky.social
✅Panel on the current frontier of MR w/ George Davey-Smith (Bristol), Dalton Conley (Princeton), and Alice Carter (Novo-Nordisk).
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ESSGN Conference IV
Bristol, May 22-23, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the 4th conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network. This conference aims to improve our understanding of how gene…
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November 28, 2024 at 4:13 PM
🔊Next conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) in Bristol, 22-23 May.
✅Keynote by @michellemeyer.bsky.social
✅Panel on the current frontier of MR w/ George Davey-Smith (Bristol), Dalton Conley (Princeton), and Alice Carter (Novo-Nordisk).
essgn.org/essgn-confer...
✅Keynote by @michellemeyer.bsky.social
✅Panel on the current frontier of MR w/ George Davey-Smith (Bristol), Dalton Conley (Princeton), and Alice Carter (Novo-Nordisk).
essgn.org/essgn-confer...