So excited about this new work from our CardioVar consortium out this week in Science led by the amazing Daniel Tabet and @fritzroth.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/

Just in time for #ASHG2025, a new FinnGen public data release is live! This release features the first clinical laboratory value association results. Analyses cover 383 lab measurements (OMOPIDs) with data from ≥1,000 participants each. Access the results here: www.finngen.fi/en/access_re...

Phenomenal. In my 10 year update of A Brief History, I make the point that in the first edition, not one disease had been successfully treated using gene therapy. Today that number is at least 7.

A new large study of alcohol intake using genetics (Mendelian randomization) finds a dose-response relationship for risk of dementia with no protective effect at low levels of intake ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...

Massive sibling regression study finds that human traits are largely environmentally driven (average heritability = 0.3)

Partitioning obesity by genomics, proteomics and health outcomes from >450,000 UK Biobank @naturemedicine.bsky.social —A protective subtype vs cardiometabolic diseases (GRS BFP) and —A risk subtype for these diseases (GRS uncoupling) GRS-genomic risk score nature.com/articles/s41...

Tor Bieiring-Sørensen. This 👇 is bloody impressive: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... AND jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Posts about research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on X, formerly called Twitter go.nature.com/45Ftiw4

Yes!! JAMA Cardiology joins JAMA & other JAMA Network journals on Bluesky! Just in time for #ESCCongress @jamacardiology.com @jama.com @jamanetworkopen.com #MedSky

Check out @tuomohartonen.bsky.social blog post on our study, out today in Nature Genetics, comparing electronic health record-based risk scores with genetic polygenic scores, and how they work better together! tuomohartonen.substack.com/p/medical-re...

Does A.I. support of physicians lead to their deskilling? A new report of gastroenterologists doing colonoscopy for polyp detection, with and without A.I., raises the possibility www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🧵 New paper out in PLoS Medicine ( doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004657 ): Are common infections during pregnancy harmful to a child’s long-term cognitive outcomes? We looked at over 250,000 full-siblings to find out. Thread with explanation blow 👇

More details at our group website: feenstralab.github.io/posts/2025-0...

📢 We’re hiring a PhD Fellow 📢 Genetics of fetal and placental growth using measures derived from ultrasound imaging in pregnancy. Co-supervised by Simon Rasmussen (CBMR, @cbmr.science) and me (SSI, @ssi-dk.bsky.social). Start: Oct 1, 2025 Deadline: July 24, 2025 📎 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...