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Emilie Wigdor @emiliewigdor.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

📣 New preprint 🧵: we profiled post-mortem human BA22 (speech cortex) in autism across 100 donors using single-nucleus multiomics (~500,000 nuclei), integrating RNA + chromatin accessibility. Shout-out to my co-first authors Varun Suresh and Yuhan Hao: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Nik Baya @nbaya.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

✨ NEW PUBLICATION ✨ We combined large-scale human genetics with CRISPR-Cas9 editing in fat cells to identify genes linked to fat accumulation. Check out the full study, now published in AJHG! www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

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Combining evidence from human genetic and functional screens to identify pathways altering obesity and fat distribution

Overall and tissue-specific fat accumulation are associated with altered risk of cardiometabolic disease and mortality. By combining exome-wide association analysis of traits related to obesity and fa...

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Emilie Wigdor @emiliewigdor.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

New app deadline August 1st 📣 If you're interested in human genetics, stats, big data, and/or ML, this is in an incredible opportunity 🧬💻 ✨Fully funded ✨ PhD at Oxford with @astheeggeggs.bsky.social, available to international students 🌎🌍🌏, embedded in the new and exciting SMARTBiomed Centre 🤩

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Duncan Palmer @astheeggeggs.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Deadline extended to August 1st! Fully funded DPhil (PhD) in Statistical Genetics at Oxford, available to international candidates!

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Duncan Palmer @astheeggeggs.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Come join us! We have an exciting PhD opportunity in statistical genetics at the University of Oxford. More info here: bit.ly/biomedDPhil 🗓️ App deadline: June 30th 2025. Please share!

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Duncan Palmer @astheeggeggs.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Come join us! We have an exciting PhD opportunity in statistical genetics at the University of Oxford. More info here: bit.ly/biomedDPhil 🗓️ App deadline: June 30th 2025. Please share!

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Barney Hill @barneyhill.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Ever get lost searching through genetic literature? We've built a new interface for bioRxiv+medRxiv to directly browse preprint findings on the genome! (1/N) Try genorxiv: sitlabs.org/genorxiv

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Nicky Whiffin @nickywhiffin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's PhD application season here in Oxford with two weeks until the deadlines (3rd Dec) @universityofoxford.bsky.social Here is a short 🧵 highlighting 3 amazing programs in the genomics, data science, statistics space 🩺🖥️🧬 Please share with anyone you think would be interested! 1/4

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Emilie Wigdor @emiliewigdor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

📣 Big news! Our tag-team effort on common variants in rare neurodevelopmental conditions is now out in Nature 📣 Co-first authoring with the brilliant Qinqin Huang🌟—proof that teamwork does make the dream work. 💪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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