The International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) is now on Bluesky! 👋🧬 We are the only international scientific society devoted to promoting the study of genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics. Follow along for the latest from IGES! #genetics #epidemiology #statistics #science #IGES

This year's IGES Annual Meeting and Education Workshop will be held Aug. 31 - Sept. 2 in the beautiful city of Cologne, Germany. Join us for an exciting lineup of keynote presentations, platform talks, posters, and hands-on tutorials at #IGES2025! Learn more: www.geneticepi.org/2025-annual-...

so long EMGM2025, see you all at the EMGM2026 in Davos! Contact me if you would like to host the EMGM2027

I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly continues to bias emerging results. But we are starting to have statistical tools to sniff it out. A 🧵:

Just when you think it can't get any worse, The White House endorsed scientific racism today. Their order on the Smithsonian states that the institution, "promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating 'Race is a human invention'." Race is a human invention.

Final EMGM2025 registration deadline <- 24th March www.billetweb.fr/emgm2025

The provisional program for the EMGM2025 is now online! Lots of great abstracts came in emgm2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Whoa, popular online anon obsessed with race-IQ pseudoscience is actually a fringe researcher doing race-IQ pseudoscience who was just hyping up his own work and lashing out at colleagues. Who could have guessed.

time's nearly up to get those abstracts in!

ESHG Abstract Deadline Reminder! The Submission Deadline for #ESHG2025 is in a week (Jan 30)! Please join us this spring (May 24-27) in Milan, Italy, for another fun and exciting ESHG conference! Learn more at 2025.eshg.org Please retweet. #Genetics #ScienceConference #ESHG #ESHG2025

EMGM2025 abstract deadline extended – 09/02 (final). Conference 8-9 April, Brest, France. Everything statistical and population genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics… Invited speakers: Céline Bon, Beatriz Cuyabano, Garrett Hellenthal. emgm2025.sciencesconf.org

just a few days left to get those abstracts in... emgm2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

🚨 Preprint update! We expanded our study on parent-of-origin effects with new findings from the MoBa cohort, now leveraging up to 265,000 individuals! Discover fresh insights into the genetic architecture of early growth! Updated preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just 10 days to go until the EMGM2025 abstract submission deadline! emgm2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=en Registration is also now up and running. Hope to see you all in Brest

A simple demonstration of a privacy-preserving de-centralised genotype imputation workflow https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.13.632689v1

Urgent - following a withdrawal, we are looking for a research engineer/post-doctoral fellow (contract of at least two years) to take part in the transcriptomics/‘omics’ analyses of our Alzheimer's disease projects. Please do not hesitate to contact me!

Totally agree and very easy to disprove. E.g Someone who is homozygous KO for PCSK9 will get very marginal (if any) LDL improvement (and therefore CAD risk reduction) from being homoygous KO for APOB. In individuals there are clear limits to additivity!

Crowbarring 10 rare 'protective' (as observed in GWAS) alleles all at once into a genome? Personally, I'd rather not try it. Fully agree with the statement here www.arrige.org/documents/ on the Heritable Polygenic Editing paper in Nature. Not just provactive, highly irresponsible.

Abstract submissions for the European Mathematical Genetics Meeting are open! emgm2025.sciencesconf.org Deadline February 2nd, looking forward to seeing your proposals. Meeting is in Brest, France, 8-9 April

I really believe more folks should start off staring at a kinship matrix rather than STRUCTURE, PCA, etc. Such a rich visual of the data.

For its 2025 instalment, the conference "Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology" (MCEB) will take place in Granada, Spain ! It will focus on methods and models for phylogenomics and population genomics, with a great lineup of keynote speakers. mceb2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

Dates and info for IGES next year, in Cologne: statgen.uni-koeln.de/iges2025/

As incoming chair of the young investigator committee of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES), I'd like to share a great opportunity for 5 Early Career Researchers to join the different IGES committees, deadline 31st Dec, details here: www.geneticepi.org/yic_position...

Organising the EMGM in Brest next year: emgm2025.sciencesconf.org

Genome of Europe project launched: the first step towards a European reference genome | Shaping Europe’s digital future. Very Excited to co-lead a work package of GoE! digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/geno...