Masahiro Kanai
masakanai.bsky.social
Masahiro Kanai
@masakanai.bsky.social
Instructor in Medicine, MGH / HMS / Broad Institute
https://mkanai.github.io/
Excited to share our new FinnGen single-nucleus multiome preprint! 🧬

We profiled ~10M PBMCs (snRNA-seq + snATAC-seq) from 1,108 Finnish donors to map how genetic variants drive complex disease through chromatin and gene regulation 🧵👇
🔗 Link: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reposted by Masahiro Kanai
A project many years in the process, we’re pleased to present our work on multi-ancestry meta-analysis across a boatload of traits in the UK Biobank: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pan-UK Biobank genome-wide association analyses enhance discovery and resolution of ancestry-enriched effects - Nature Genetics
Genome-wide analyses for 7,266 traits leveraging data from several genetic ancestry groups in UK Biobank identify new associations and enhance resources for interpreting risk variants across diverse p...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM