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Elizabeth Atkinson

@egatkinson.bsky.social
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Population and statistical genomicist working to make genomics fully representative. Views are my own. (she/her)

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From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Researchers are getting better at finding #disease-liked #genes. @egatkinson.bsky.social et al. @natgenet.nature.com @bcmhouston.bsky.social n #TexasChildrens @bcmgenetics.bsky.social blogs.bcm.edu/2026/08/06/t...
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Tractor-Mix helps scientists uncover disease-linked genes that traditional methods can miss
A new computational method enables scientists to more accurately identify genetic changes linked to disease.
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From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Dr. E. Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social et al have developed a new computational method that enables scientists to more accurately identify #geneticChanges linked to #disease. @natgenet.nature.com @bcmhouston.bsky.social #TexasChildrens @bcmgenetics.bsky.social www.bcm.edu/news/new-app...
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Tractor-Mix is now published in @natgenet.nature.com! Led by @doubletaotan.bsky.social, we developed a GWAS method that handles admixture and relatedness together, expanding the range of samples that can be analyzed with local-ancestry resolution. Paper: rdcu.be/fuxCD
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Extending genome-wide association studies to admixed cohorts with high degrees of relatedness - Nature Genetics
Tractor-Mix is a GWAS method for admixed cohorts with high relatedness, improving ancestry-specific effect estimation, controlling false positives and boosting power to detect ancestry-enriched loci a...
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
We are pleased to share our new preprint introducing MosaicSim, a framework for generating realistic mosaic variants! Mosaic variants - mutations present in only a subset of cells - are crucial for development, disease, and cancer, but are notoriously hard to call. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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MosaicSim: A Novel Mosaic Variant Simulator Reveals Diminishing Returns of Ultra-High Coverage for Mosaic Variant Detection
Genetic mutations within select cells of a tissue, termed mosaic variants (MV), are being increasingly recognized for their role in human disease. This growing interest underscores the need for specia...
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A fun lab outing to the zoo ahead of conference season! 🦒
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From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Texas Children's/Baylor College of Medicine Researchers Create Groundbreaking Tool to Improve Accuracy of #GeneticTesting @egatkinson.bsky.social @bcmgenetics.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social #TCHResearchNews #TexasChildrens @natcomms.nature.com tinyurl.com/jj6kyrrv
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Thrilled to share our new @natcomms.nature.com paper on local ancestry informed allele frequencies in gnomAD, which are live now on the browser! Check out my stellar PhD student @pragskore.bsky.social’s Bluetorial on how this brings finer detail to variant interpretation 🧬🖥️
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Konrad @konradjk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A project many years in the process, we’re pleased to present our work on multi-ancestry meta-analysis across a boatload of traits in the UK Biobank: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pan-UK Biobank genome-wide association analyses enhance discovery and resolution of ancestry-enriched effects - Nature Genetics
Genome-wide analyses for 7,266 traits leveraging data from several genetic ancestry groups in UK Biobank identify new associations and enhance resources for interpreting risk variants across diverse p...
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Delighted to amplify my talented PhD student’s work! Check it out for a great way to streamline and harmonize Tractor analyses.
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🚨 New perspective piece in @ajhgnews.bsky.social! 🚨 We developed a hands-on training resource for large-scale genomic data analysis in the All of Us Researcher Workbench, now published here:
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We're excited to introduce Tractor-Mix, our new method for GWAS in admixed cohorts with relatedness, led by the fantastic @doubletaotan.bsky.social! Read the full preprint here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks to all our amazing collaborators who helped make this work possible!
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Check out my stellar PhD student, Pragati's talk on our work generating local ancestry informed frequency estimates in gnomAD as part of the prestigious Emerging Genomic Scientist Symposium next week! Congrats on being selected for this amazing event!
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Human Genetics | Genomic Scientist Fellows | UCLA Medical School
The Emerging Genomic Scientist Fellows Program is a cornerstone of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives in the Department of Human Genetics.
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I'm delighted to be part of this symposium, put on by University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and led by @bpasaniuc.bsky.social and @sarahtishkoff.bsky.social. See you in a few weeks! upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
📃 I am excited to share our @naturegenet.bsky.social review paper on the state of psychiatric genetics in Latin America, put forth by the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC)! 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Psychiatric genetics in the diverse landscape of Latin American populations - Nature Genetics
Latin America and the Caribbean remain largely underrepresented in psychiatric genetics research. This Review highlights the need for more research in these populations to advance genetic insights and...
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 📄 New preprint alert! 📄 @helenyslin.bsky.social benchmarked polygenic scores (PGS) using genotyping arrays vs whole-genome sequencing (WGS) across traits & populations in @AllofUsResearch. What’s the best approach? The answer is… it depends! 🧵⬇️
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Differential performance of polygenic prediction across traits and populations depending on genotype discovery approach
Polygenic scores (PGS) are widely used for estimating genetic predisposition to complex traits by aggregating the effects of common variants into a single measure. They hold promise in identifying ind...
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A fun Atkinson lab meeting with 100% membership in person! Exciting to see the whole group together
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
TODAY! @standupforscience.bsky.social is taking place in DC & across the U.S. to help protect the American scientific enterprise & defend science as a public good that drives social, political, & economic progress. Find your local site: buff.ly/3EWhSZM #scienceforall #advocacy 1/2🧵
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Elizabeth Atkinson @egatkinson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
So proud of my amazing lab member @jhmauer.bsky.social being featured by AJHG for this fantastic work!
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Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) @pgcgenetics.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We asked three chairs of PGC Working Groups: what is the goal for their research this year? @niamhmullins.bsky.social, Barbara Franke and @egatkinson.bsky.social #womeninSTEM #InternationalWomensDay2025
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BCM Department of Molecular and Human Genetics @bcmgenetics.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Grace Tietz is a Ph.D. student in the Genetics & Genomics Program at Baylor in the lab of Dr. Elizabeth Atkinson's. Grace's primary project aims to improve genetic testing for cardiovascular disease across populations. She was just awarded her F31 from the NHLBI.
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