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Our lab attended the Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics (ProbGen) 2021 virtual conference. Alison Barton and Maxwell Sherman spoke about their work on whole-exome imputation in UK Biobank (Alison) and deep-learning neutral somatic mutation rates in cancers (Max), and Margaux Hujoel and Ronen Mukamel...

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's abstract on clonal hematopoiesis in the UK Biobank (with key collaborator Giulio Genovese) has been selected for a plenary talk at the 2017 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) conference and as a finalist for the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards.

Po-Ru Loh will be presenting work on mosaic CNVs in clonal hematopoiesis and brain development at the Harvard Biostatistics / HMS Department of Biomedical Informatics B3D Seminar on Mon 4/30.