Shweta Ramdas
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Studying the genomics of Indian populations @CBR_IISc. Mental health in academia. Outreach. @Umich transplant.
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Our mentor Casey Brown, apart from being an extraordinary scientist, was a brilliant teacher who loved everything genetics. In his honor, some of the world's leading experts came together to create the 'Casey Brown Lecture Series' on human genetics 1/ shorturl.at/eCm7S
Casey Brown Lecture Series - YouTube
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This is akin to an upper level seminar course for students of biology or relevant fields. These videos can be watched in order or in isolation. Please do share widely. We will plan to update these with more videos on relevant topics periodically. 2/
Our mentor Casey Brown, apart from being an extraordinary scientist, was a brilliant teacher who loved everything genetics. In his honor, some of the world's leading experts came together to create the 'Casey Brown Lecture Series' on human genetics 1/ shorturl.at/eCm7S
Casey Brown Lecture Series - YouTube
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Excited to share our latest work! We find that common-variant GWAS and rare-variant burden tests prioritize genes in fundamentally different ways, with important implications.

Check out Jeff’s excellent thread below👇
jeffspence.github.io
What do GWAS and rare variant burden tests discover, and why?

Do these studies find the most IMPORTANT genes? If not, how DO they rank genes?

Here we present a surprising result: these studies actually test for SPECIFICITY! A 🧵on what this means... (🧪🧬)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Specificity, length, and luck: How genes are prioritized by rare and common variant association studies
Standard genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and rare variant burden tests are essential tools for identifying trait-relevant genes. Although these methods are conceptually similar, we show by anal...
www.biorxiv.org
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My mentor Casey Brown and I were talking about failed projects and I said how it was ok for projects in labs to fail. He interjected, "yes not every project has to succeed. But the every trainee of mine has to". The number of ways he has helped me start my career in India is impossible to list here.