Zoltán Kutalik
@zkutalik.bsky.social
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Statistical Geneticist, Group leader at University of Lausanne/Unisante, father, climber, runner
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rjhfmstr.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint out!
We reconstructed parental haplotypes in >440k individuals (UK & Estonian biobanks) to estimate assortative mating directly in the parental generation.
This reveals intensified assortment in recent generations.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Wow! If this holds up, it will be a triumph of science (i.e., of many hundreds of dedicated scientists over decades) over a devastating disease.
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sashagusevposts.bsky.social
I wrote about gene-gene interactions (epistasis) and the implications for heritability, trait definitions, natural selection, and therapeutic interventions. Biology is clearly full of causal interactions, so why don't we see them in the data? A 🧵:
Beneath the surface of the sum
When genetic interactions matter and when they don't
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lcpilling.bsky.social
Study of 230,000 people finds many examples where the effect of a genetic variant differs depending on the parent of origin, especially for growth and metabolism - fascinating!

Amazing study, congrats @rjhfmstr.bsky.social, @zkutalik.bsky.social and team 👏
rjhfmstr.bsky.social
🚨 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!
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npirastu.bsky.social
Extremely cool paper from @rjhfmstr.bsky.social @zkutalik.bsky.social and team. I still need to get my head around how the same genetic variant has opposite effects depending if it’s maternally or paternally inherited and why.
rjhfmstr.bsky.social
🚨 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!
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fbm-unil.bsky.social
🚨 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...
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rjhfmstr.bsky.social
🚨 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!
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rjhfmstr.bsky.social
Thrilled to see this project come to life — a huge team effort with collaborators in 🇨🇭 🇪🇪 🇳🇴! Huge thanks to all co-authors and funders!
@zkutalik.bsky.social @lilimilani.bsky.social @srubinacci.bsky.social @adriaan-vd-graaf.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @estbiobank.bsky.social and many more !
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tabeasch.bsky.social
🚨New preprint is out!

How do genetic effects on complex traits change with age? In this work, we compare different approaches to obtain age-varying genetic effects, and show how design and modeling choices can impact the conclusions we draw.
shorturl.at/17snd
A thread 🧵👇
Design and model choices shape inference of age-varying genetic effects on complex traits
Understanding how genetic influences on complex traits change with age is a fundamental question in genetic epidemiology. Both cross-sectional (between-subject) and longitudinal (within-subject) appro...
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zkutalik.bsky.social
This represents a real tour-de-force by @adriaan-vd-graaf.bsky.social. It has so many strong aspects: (i) establishment of large scale ground truth data for causal inference [metabolomics/transcriptomics]; (ii) sophisticated method and (iii) biological insights through real data application.
adriaan-vd-graaf.bsky.social
Our paper, MR-link-2 has just been published! Offering pleiotropy robust Mendelian randomization from a single region! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A network of metabolites and their potential causal relationships. Green edges are Detected by the statistical causal inference method MR-link-2
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adriaan-vd-graaf.bsky.social
Our paper, MR-link-2 has just been published! Offering pleiotropy robust Mendelian randomization from a single region! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A network of metabolites and their potential causal relationships. Green edges are Detected by the statistical causal inference method MR-link-2
zkutalik.bsky.social
Lausanne Comp Bio Symposium 2025 (cbiosymposium.unil.ch)

🗓 Abstract deadline 30 June (𝟑 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨!!!)
🎤 Oral presentation notifications: 7 July
✅ Early Bird registration deadline: 11 July
💰 Registration fee for non-PI: 150 CHF
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ciriellolab.bsky.social
🔥 18-19/9/25 🔥 Computational Biology Symposium in Lausanne! Meet the speakers: Mo Lotfollahi @sangerinstitute.bsky.social is expert of cutting-edge #AI approaches to study #singlecell biology , #generativeAI, and #spatialbiology lotfollahi.com
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marcrr.bsky.social
You can still apply to this postdoc job opportunity!
marcrr.bsky.social
Postdoc job opportunity! We're looking for ECR in evolutionary genomics to study the relation between intra-specific gene expression variability, polymorphism, and macro-evolutionary rates. We have the data in 3 fishes & amphioxus, just waiting for your expertise and enthusiasm!
tinyurl.com/3aewk286
Opportunités de carrière : Postdoctoral position in evolutionary genomics (22280)
Saisissez une liste de termes, que nous allons rechercher dans le titre du poste et sa description. \nAstuces\xa0:\n\nNous rechercherons tous les mots figurant dans la recherche.\nLes r\xe9sultats…
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andganna.bsky.social
We have 2-3 group leader positions opening @fimm-uh.bsky.social !!

We are looking for outstanding candidates in human genetics and precision medicine.

This time we have a focus on population health data science. E.g. AI for EHR/health data       

Generous starting package 💰

shorturl.at/FAk6n
FIMM-EMBL Group Leaders in Molecular Medicine
FIMM-EMBL Group Leaders in Molecular Medicine
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zkutalik.bsky.social
Join us 18-19 September in Lausanne! *Abstract submission deadline (2 June) is approaching!*
zkutalik.bsky.social
Meet another speaker of the Computational Biology Symposium [https://cbiosymposium.unil.ch/]: Blagoje Soskic [https://tinyurl.com/ybs82xuu]! He studies the genetic control of T – B cell interaction and antibody production with innovative combinations of experimental and computational approaches.
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rjhfmstr.bsky.social
Thrilled to receive the Early Career Award for my presentation at #ESHG2025! 🧬
Big thanks to all the amazing collaborators on this project — couldn't have done it without you.
Grateful to the organizers and inspired by the science shared this week!
zkutalik.bsky.social
Extremely proud of @rjhfmstr.bsky.social for his @eshg.bsky.social Early Career Award received yesterday in Milan. A truly deserved recognition of his outstanding presentation and ingenious research on parent-of-origin effect inference! #ESHG2025
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eshg.bsky.social
ESHG2025# Early Career awards:
For outstanding science presented at the conference

- Allison Newman, Exeter, UK
- Hristiana Lyubenova, Berlin, Germany
- Robin J. Hofmeister, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Pau Clavell-Revelles, Barcelona, Spain
zkutalik.bsky.social
Extremely proud of @rjhfmstr.bsky.social for his @eshg.bsky.social Early Career Award received yesterday in Milan. A truly deserved recognition of his outstanding presentation and ingenious research on parent-of-origin effect inference! #ESHG2025