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Po-Ru Loh has been awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface for his research applying statistical phasing methods to detect chromosomal abnormalitiies in blood DNA.

Biobank-based genome-wide association studies are enabling exciting insights in complex trait genetics, but much uncertainty remains over best practices for optimizing statistical power and computational efficiency in GWAS while controlling confounders. Here, we introduce a much faster version of...

Maxwell Sherman's paper on mosaic CNVs in autism ( Sherman et al. 2020 Nat Neurosci) is now published -- congratulations, Max! This work, a collaboration with Chris Walsh and Peter Park, implicated large mosaic copy number variants (CNVs) arising early in embryonic development as a likely...

Max is starting a PhD program at MIT EECS and is interested in how population patterns learned from biobank data can be used to predict traits, diseases and health outcomes for individuals. Welcome, Max!

Po-Ru Loh will be speaking about phase-based detection of mosaic chromosomal alterations at the Gordon Research Conference on Quantitative Genetics and Genomics on Tue 2/12.

Alison Barton has graduated from the Harvard Medical School Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) PhD program and will be moving on to a postdoc in population genetics with David Reich. Congratulations, Alison!

Maxwell Sherman has completed MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) PhD program and is moving on to Serinus Biosciences, which he co-founded earlier this year. Congratulations, Max!

Po-Ru Loh has started a faculty position at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School.

Po-Ru Loh's plenary talk at ASHG 2017 won an Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics!

Po-Ru Loh will be speaking about haplotype phasing and mosaic chromosomal alterations at 23andMe (Thu 10/11), ASHG 2018 (Wed 10/17, platform talk #17 at 9am), and Michigan (Tue 10/23).