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International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) @geneticepi.bsky.social · May 16

The International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) is now on Bluesky! 👋🧬

We are the only international scientific society devoted to promoting the study of genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics. Follow along for the latest from IGES! #genetics #epidemiology #statistics #science #IGES

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International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) @geneticepi.bsky.social · May 19

This year's IGES Annual Meeting and Education Workshop will be held Aug. 31 - Sept. 2 in the beautiful city of Cologne, Germany. Join us for an exciting lineup of keynote presentations, platform talks, posters, and hands-on tutorials at #IGES2025!

Learn more: www.geneticepi.org/2025-annual-...

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Apr 9

so long EMGM2025, see you all at the EMGM2026 in Davos! Contact me if you would like to host the EMGM2027

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · Mar 28

I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly continues to bias emerging results. But we are starting to have statistical tools to sniff it out. A 🧵:

How population stratification led to a decade of sensationally false genetic findings

Stratification makes environments look like genes

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · Mar 28

Just when you think it can't get any worse, The White House endorsed scientific racism today. Their order on the Smithsonian states that the institution, "promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating 'Race is a human invention'." Race is a human invention.

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Mar 17

Final EMGM2025 registration deadline <- 24th March www.billetweb.fr/emgm2025

Tickets : EMGM2025

Tickets : EMGM2025 - Billetweb

www.billetweb.fr

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Mar 12

The provisional program for the EMGM2025 is now online! Lots of great abstracts came in emgm2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Mar 11

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Homepage - openRxiv

openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · Mar 4

Whoa, popular online anon obsessed with race-IQ pseudoscience is actually a fringe researcher doing race-IQ pseudoscience who was just hyping up his own work and lashing out at colleagues. Who could have guessed.

Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Mar 3

It's finally official and verified: The X user "Cremieux" is ID'd as a guy called Jordan Lasker. Lasker has been LARPing as an expert in genetics on X to promote racist pseudoscience. @sashagusevposts.bsky.social has been calling out his bullshit for ages

Jordan Lasker, AKA ‘Cremieux’
One of the speakers at the conference is billed under a social media alias, Cremieux, but the Guardian has corroborated that the account is apparently run by Jordan Lasker, a long-time proponent of eugenics.

The @cremieuxrecueil X account has been boosted or engaged with dozens of times by that platform’s proprietor, Elon Musk, often on the topic of falling birthrates.

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Feb 8

time's nearly up to get those abstracts in!

Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Feb 2

EMGM2025 abstract deadline extended – 09/02 (final). Conference 8-9 April, Brest, France. Everything statistical and population genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics… Invited speakers: Céline Bon, Beatriz Cuyabano, Garrett Hellenthal. emgm2025.sciencesconf.org

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Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · Jan 24

ESHG Abstract Deadline Reminder!
The Submission Deadline for #ESHG2025 is in a week (Jan 30)!

Please join us this spring (May 24-27) in Milan, Italy, for another fun and exciting ESHG conference!

Learn more at 2025.eshg.org

Please retweet.

#Genetics #ScienceConference #ESHG #ESHG2025

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Feb 2

abstracts submitted can be edited up until the deadline, no need to wait until the last minute 😉

Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Feb 2

EMGM2025 abstract deadline extended – 09/02 (final). Conference 8-9 April, Brest, France. Everything statistical and population genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics… Invited speakers: Céline Bon, Beatriz Cuyabano, Garrett Hellenthal. emgm2025.sciencesconf.org

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Jan 30

just a few days left to get those abstracts in... emgm2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

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Robin Hofmeister @rjhfmstr.bsky.social · Jan 21

🚨 Preprint update!
We expanded our study on parent-of-origin effects with new findings from the MoBa cohort, now leveraging up to 265,000 individuals!

Discover fresh insights into the genetic architecture of early growth!

Updated preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Robin Hofmeister @rjhfmstr.bsky.social · Dec 6

🚨 Our preprint on parent-of-origin effects (POEs) is out!

With our novel method, we inferred the parental origin of alleles for >220,000 individuals, uncovering novel insights into genetics, evolution, and health.

👉 Read here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

👇 Highlights below!

Parent-of-Origin inference and its role in the genetic architecture of complex traits: evidence from ~220,000 individuals

Parent-of-origin effects (POEs) occur when the impact of a genetic variant depends on its parental origin. Traditionally linked to genomic imprinting, these effects are believed to have evolved from p...

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Jan 23

Just 10 days to go until the EMGM2025 abstract submission deadline!
emgm2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
Registration is also now up and running.
Hope to see you all in Brest

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bioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · Jan 15

A simple demonstration of a privacy-preserving de-centralised genotype imputation workflow https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.13.632689v1

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Jean-Charles Lambert @jclambert.bsky.social · Jan 14

Urgent - following a withdrawal, we are looking for a research engineer/post-doctoral fellow (contract of at least two years) to take part in the transcriptomics/‘omics’ analyses of our Alzheimer's disease projects.

Please do not hesitate to contact me!

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lotsosnax.bsky.social @lotsosnax.bsky.social · Jan 10

Totally agree and very easy to disprove. E.g Someone who is homozygous KO for PCSK9 will get very marginal (if any) LDL improvement (and therefore CAD risk reduction) from being homoygous KO for APOB. In individuals there are clear limits to additivity!

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Jan 10

yes! the additive model works when you are looking for marginal effects across lots of different genetic, environmental, (sub-)phenotypic contexts in a population cross section. other models may not yield such marginal effects but that doesnt mean they aren't reevant at the individual level

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Jan 9

Crowbarring 10 rare 'protective' (as observed in GWAS) alleles all at once into a genome? Personally, I'd rather not try it. Fully agree with the statement here www.arrige.org/documents/ on the Heritable Polygenic Editing paper in Nature. Not just provactive, highly irresponsible.

Documents – ARRIGE

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Jan 6

Abstract submissions for the European Mathematical Genetics Meeting are open! emgm2025.sciencesconf.org Deadline February 2nd, looking forward to seeing your proposals. Meeting is in Brest, France, 8-9 April

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Dec 21

I really believe more folks should start off staring at a kinship matrix rather than STRUCTURE, PCA, etc. Such a rich visual of the data.

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Dec 19

thanks to all the amazing people who collaborated on this!

Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · Dec 19

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SURFBAT: a surrogate family based association test building on large imputation reference panels

Abstract. Genotype–phenotype association tests are typically adjusted for population stratification using principal components that are estimated genome-wi

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