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Linda Kachuri
@lindakachuri.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Stanford
Genetic & cancer epidemiology
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Reposted by Linda Kachuri
A final point about trust. Herasight has apparently partnered with Heliospect Genomics, founded by self-described eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly (a member of both companies). Anomaly and Heliospect were profiled last year by Hope Not Hate:
investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/superbaby-fa...
August 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reposted by Linda Kachuri
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Genetic correlation is straightforward but remember HLA - largely impacting T1D & other AIDs - is excluded by LDSC.

If genetic correlation is a genome-wide non-HLA measurement, how can we get HLA back into the game?

We built a within-sample HLA PGS with weighted ridge classifiers in FinnGen.
April 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM