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Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI grant
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.
New preprint (Loh et al.): Mixed model association for biobank-scale data sets
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...
ASD mosaic CNV paper published in Nature Neuroscience
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 Sherman has joined the lab!
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!
Upcoming talk on mosaic chromosomal alterations
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 receives her PhD
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 receives his PhD
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!
Highlights
Selected Preprints Mukamel RE*, Handsaker RE*, Sherman MA, Barton AR, Hujoel MLA, McCarroll SA**, Loh PR**. Repeat polymorphisms in non-coding DNA underlie top genetic risk loci for glaucoma and colorectal cancer. medRxiv (2022). [ pdf + supp] Selected Publications Hujoel MLA, Sherman MA, Barton AR...
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Positions We will have open positions in 2022 for postdocs and students with very strong computational and/or mathematical background, especially those with C/C++ programming experience or previous research experience in statistical genetics. Please send your CV and a brief statement of your...