The Canada Government will offer 400 postdoctoral fellowships to international researchers in early 2026. If you have a background in wildlife microbiome or quantitative genetics and are interested to apply to work on microbiome variation in Sable Island horses or caribou, feel free to get in touch

1/7 New BMI GWAS out! Using Estonian Biobank (n=204,747) and replication in FinnGen, we show that even in Europe you can still find region-specific biology if you zoom into population-tailored sumstats. Big thanks to co-author @kanwalbatool.bsky.social :)

And so many other excellent speakers like @srubinacci.bsky.social @stevesphd.bsky.social @hilarycmartin.bsky.social & many more who made it an awesome conference - now called mini-ASHG (by Hilary Martin) and we loved it 🥰

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

Higher eQTL power reveals signals that boost GWAS colocalization www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪

🚨 Our parent-of-origin study is out in Nature! 🧬
Maternal and paternal alleles can have distinct — even opposite — effects on human traits, revealing a hidden layer of genetic architecture that standard GWAS miss.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Highlights below!

✅ Published in @natureportfolio.nature.com today, the paper describing the initial whole-genome sequencing analysis of 500,000 UK Biobank participants.

Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing work from my colleague and postdoc Dr. Isabelle Foote on the genetic architecture of frailty. Encourage you to check it out!!!!

🚨 News recherche
Des caractéristiques telles que la taille, le métabolisme ou encore le risque de développer certaines #maladies peuvent être influencées de manière différente selon que le variant #génétique en cause provient de la mère ou du père.
➡ www.unil.ch/news/1754464...

Is anyone aware of PhD students having access to #allofus data? We are being told it's impossible. Which seems... impractical... given that students do so much of the research in many places. Please reskeet even if you don't know the answer? Would really like to resolve this barrier for my student.

Our paper, MR-link-2 has just been published! Offering pleiotropy robust Mendelian randomization from a single region! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study out today has used our food liking GWAS to conclude that pizza liking is protective against T2D. I am now thorn between “oh look someone is using our results” and “oh no look what we have unleashed”

if one more person is rude to Award Candidates when asking them questions I'm going to start throwing tomatoes 🍅😠 #wheninitaly #eshg2025 #eshg25

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Our ability to predict a person's risk of heart disease keeps getting better, even among those previously considered at low risk by traditional clinical criteria
@naturemedicine.bsky.social by my team @scripps.edu
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The most famous heuristic in mapping gwas snps to genes is "it's usually the closest gene".

But only slightly less well-known is this: consider the colocalized phenotypes.

That is, a genetic variant seldom disrupts exactly one phenotype.

What else does tugging on that thread do?

This is so beautiful.
Sincerely,
Genetics professor

From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Honour to be invited to give a talk by @zkutalik.bsky.social at the University of Lausanne last week 🇨🇭 Thanks for the opportunity to present our work and meet your amazing team 🤩

I presented on genetics and multimorbidity. It was recorded if you would like to watch: rec.unil.ch/videos/dcb-e...

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