Anke Hinney
ankehinney.bsky.social
Anke Hinney
@ankehinney.bsky.social
Professor, Medical Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen, Vice Dean for Academic Career Development and Diversity, Genetics, Obesity, Eating Disorders, opinions are my own
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Bei der Essstörung #Anorexia nervosa spielen bestimmte #Gene eine große Rolle. Auch epigenetische Faktoren sollen an der #Magersucht beteiligt sein. Allerdings werfen Daten von @ankehinney.bsky.social, Luisa Rajcsanyi et al. hier neue Fragen auf: www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3... #Epigenetik
October 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Congratulations to one of our PIs @helenahartmann.com who received one of 10 Top Young Science Best Paper Awards from the medical faculty today! ⭐

And thanks to @ankehinney.bsky.social for the great ceremony and prize announcements ✨

@neurologieessen.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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This powerful and unbiased way to identify links between genetic variants and biological traits has changed scientists’ understanding of complex diseases and how to treat them

https://go.nature.com/3RPTMTG
Twenty years of genome-wide association studies
The first robust association between a genetic variant and disease risk.
go.nature.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Wahlpflichtfach Geschlechtersensible Medizin - schon die zweite Woche - superspannend 🤩
February 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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An bayerischen Kliniken arbeiten mittlerweile mehr Ärztinnen als Ärzte. Verbandschefin Christiane Groß erklärt, warum davon alle Geschlechter profitieren – und welche Rolle die guten Schulnoten von Mädchen spielen.
Mehr Ärztinnen als Ärzte: Wie Frauen Kliniken verändern
An bayerischen Kliniken arbeiten mittlerweile mehr Ärztinnen als Ärzte. Verbandschefin Christiane Groß erklärt, warum davon alle Geschlechter profitieren – und welche Rolle die guten Schulnoten von Mädchen spielen.
www.spiegel.de
February 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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The cancellation of the project for political reasons “is pretty alarming,” says cancer researcher Mandi Pratt-Chapman. scim.ag/4b7RZCx
How a cancer researcher lost a gender-related grant to Trump’s executive orders
“Unethical, unlawful, inhumane”: NIH-backed scientist decries termination of study collecting data on sexual orientation and gender identity of cancer patients
scim.ag
February 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. Nature reports on the search to find out what they do. 🧪
‘Dark proteins’ hiding in our cells could hold clues to cancer and other diseases
The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out what they do.
go.nature.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This is effectively a snitch on women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks policy. White men can just baselessly accuse any minority of being DEI and get them fired. They created a permission structure to bring back segregation as a matter of policy by calling it anti DEI.
January 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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The #FDA website had to remove all information that ensures that
- #women,
- people of diverse #ethnic backgrounds,
- #lgbtq people,
- people with #disabilities,
- #socially-disadvantaged people
are adequately included in #clinical #trials so that new drugs and therapies work for everyone.
January 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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1/n Our multi-ancestry #GWAS meta-analysis of major depression is now published in @cellpress.bsky.social.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A thread 🧵:
January 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The PGC just published the largest multi-ancestry #GWAS of #BipolarDisorder, identifying 298 genetic regions linked to the condition. go.nature.com/3PJhi3W
Genomics yields biological and phenotypic insights into bipolar disorder - Nature
Using multi-ancestry genome-wide association study and fine-mapping, 298 loci and 36 credible genes are identified in the aetiology of bipolar disorder.
go.nature.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM