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Lasse Folkersen

@folkersen.com
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CSO Nucleus Genomics Genetics, polygenic risk scores. Previously at impute.me and Genome Center Denmark

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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 27/08/2026
Very interesting results, very cool study!
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 24/11/2025
I don't think I've ever had a pre-print more heavily scrutinized than the one we recently put on medRxiv with the new Nucleus Genomics PRS for 9 diseases: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... This is great! We welcome discussion!
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 30/10/2025
Very proud of this work: State of the art polygenic risk scores, and open-access even. Really hoping that this can push the field forward towards better disease prediction and prevention. The first author, Stephan, is only on X - but he did a great explainer thread there too. Check it out.
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 29/06/2025
Such a nice iniative.
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
📣 Psychological & behavioural considerations for integrating polygenic risk scores for disease into clinical practice www.nature.com/articles/s41... Saskia Sanderson & I wrote a piece assessing the common concern that PRS may have psych/behavioural harms tl;dr 👉 There's little/no evidence for this
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 15/03/2025
Just doing our part for the health of the next generations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4zf...
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Introducing: Family Planning Through Genetic Matching
YouTube video by Nucleus Genomics
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 13/03/2025
This aligns well with how I see the field evolving. Great to see more openness to different DNA data sources—under responsibility, of course! I see a future where both hospital and commercial DNA testing play a role in care. When high-quality data exists, it should be used!
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Shai Carmi @shaicarmi.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Given several new followers here, I'm posting the link to our Slack group "genetic genealogy science". We post and discuss manuscripts on phasing/imputation, IBD, recombination, demographic inference, ancient DNA, ancestry/admixture, etc. All are welcome. join.slack.com/t/geneticgen...
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 13/02/2025
Since this was only announced on Twitter, I wanted to share it here as well: Today we’re launching Nucleus Family—our biggest update yet. Family means a lot to me, and working on this has been one of the most meaningful projects I’ve been part of in a while.
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 08/02/2025
Ok bsky you may not have heard me, but rare diseases fundraiser tm, ...at this rate X is gonna win in engagement, and like, what?!?! Neurofibromatosis not important? my.cupids.org/fundraiser/6...
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2025 Cupid's Undie Run New York City
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 21/01/2025
I'm running in the "Cupid's Undies Run NYC" in two weeks to raise awareness and fundings for Neurofibromatosis research. Because rare-variant-genetics research matters! Fundraiser link: my.cupids.org/fundraiser/6...
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2025 Cupid's Undie Run New York City
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 09/01/2025
This gem of a pop quiz from mynucleus.com shouldn't be stuck on twitter only!
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 22/12/2024
I really liked this commentary. It adresses the circularities in automated variant curation, but also seeks solutions. And I obviously also liked it, because it notes that we still should go beyond that simplistic "yes"/"no" bad pathogenic, good benign approach. www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
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Toward trustable use of machine learning models of variant effects in the clinic
Machine-learning-powered predictions of the effect of genetic variants on human disease are becoming increasingly important in the clinic. In this manuscript, we lay down the core principles for their trustworthy validation and implementation and highlight four areas where current practices fall short, offering recommendations for advancing the field.
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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Hi everyone! just wanted to re-post the psych genetic starter pack I created - now with new additions, including @pgcgenetics.bsky.social (welcome!) go.bsky.app/SkkmtMG 🥳 🧪
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 06/12/2024
Help wanted: I need some notable persons from America to say I'm ok to let into their country now and then. For an O1 visa application. Please, reach out if you are (kinda) notable and currently live in the USA.
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Jodie Ingles @jodieingles27.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
We are HIRING a postdoc! Are you into cardiovascular genomics? Does gene discovery and rare variants get you out of bed!? OMG, me too! Unfortunately i can't apply for this role, but YOU CAN! Come join our research lab at @garvaninstitute.bsky.social Sydney 🇦🇺 #genesky www.seek.com.au/Garvan-Insti...
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Daniel MacArthur @dgmacarthur.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Fantastic to see this large-scale Australian trial of expanded carrier screening - identifying couples at risk of having babies with severe genetic disease, before they get pregnant - published. tl;dr we should already be doing this at population scale. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Nationwide, Couple-Based Genetic Carrier Screening | NEJM
Genomic sequencing technology allows for identification of reproductive couples with an increased chance, as compared with that in the general population, of having a child with an autosomal recess...
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The Polygenic Score Catalog @pgscatalog.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Catalog isn't just a knowledgebase and source of polygenic scores, we also provide open-soruce tools to make PGS calculation easier and more reproducible! You can find our pgsc_calc tool on github (github.com/PGScatalog/p...) with extensive documentation (pgsc-calc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
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Pradeep Natarajan @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Among British Pakistani & British Bangladeshi individuals, partitioned T2D polygenic load for insulin deficiency & lipodystrophy was higher than white European individuals & predisposed to faster progression to T2D & complications www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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Florian Wünnemann @flowuenne.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
For anyone that hasn't seen it yet, Seqera recently released Seqera AI 🤖 to help convert your non-Nextflow pipelines to Nextflow, write new Nextflow workflows and write tests. You can try it out right now at seqera.io/ask-ai/ 🚀! My secret favorite use is to ask it to roast my pipelines 🔥😆
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Leon Eyrich Jessen @leonjessen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
@rabaath.bsky.social explains why even after 5 years #python pandas feels clunky when coming from #Rstats: www.sumsar.net/blog/pandas-... My take is not on whether one is better than the other for the experienced, but on which one is more accessible for the inexperienced.
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Why pandas feels clunky when coming from R
Five years ago I started a new role and I suddenly found myself, a staunch R fan, having to code in Python on a daily basis. Working with data, most of my Python work involved using pandas, the …
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Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 19/11/2024
Nightingale Health UK is hiring! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Nightingale Health on LinkedIn: Senior Data Scientist, Oxford, UK
We are looking for a Data Scientist in Oxford, UK! 🇬🇧🔬   Become a part of our team enabling our blood testing technology that has the potential to change…
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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
tidyplots Time to say goodbye to ggplot2?😜 "a significant reduction of code complexity" vs ggplot2 cran.r-project.org/web/packages... Jan Broder Engler bioRxiv 2024 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 09/11/2024
Hello fellow blue sky scientist. We have a job opening for a statistical geneticists at www.mynucleus.com - feel free to DM me for details.
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Nucleus
The all-in-one DNA health test.
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 20/10/2024
What's up with the wave of bsky people now...?
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 13/12/2023
We’re thrilled at @nucleusgenomics.bsky.social to announce that we are working alongside Illumina to bring our mission of getting clinical-grade whole-genome insights to life: illumina.com/company/news...
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 07/12/2023
#thermofisher sponsored conference on polygenic risk scores and precision medicine at SSI-Copenhagen.
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 18/11/2023
Great day at the Karolinska Cardiovascular Research Retreat 2023. Thanks to organisers for the invite!
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Joni Coleman @jonicoleman.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Hugely important resource! gnomad.broadinstitute.org/news/2023-11...
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Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 26/10/2023
Next week's #ASHG2023 is an early test whether the growing bluesky genetics community can make social media at conferences fun again! Has someone set up one of those feed thingies? What's the right way to tag it? 🧬
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
For a balanced and clear-eyed view of polygenic scores and their potential clinical utility, the International Common Disease Alliance PRS Task Force's piece from 2021 is the landmark 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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nf-core @nf-co.re · 04/10/2023
Pipeline release! nf-core/sarek v3.3.2 - Sarek 3.3.2 - Ráhpajávvre! Please see the changelog: github.com/nf-core/sarek/releases/t…
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 02/10/2023
This COVID-19 vaccine wikipedia page illustration video becomes very relevant to share again, because of the new Nobel price. Big congratulations to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, well deserved! 🧬🖥️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co...
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 01/10/2023
Very nice clinical status article on polygenic risk scores (PRS) in the Journal if the Danish Medical association. Worth a Google translate + read, for the illustrations alone 🧬🖥️ ugeskriftet.dk/videnskab/kl...
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Klinisk anvendelse af polygene risikoscorer
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Keira Johnston @kjohnst9.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
Yay first bluesky post, yay new paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... We carried out one of the largest transcriptomic imputation studies in a chronic pain phenotype to date, followed by pheWAS, and using gene expression findings to suggest drugs for repurposing
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 28/09/2023
Hi @danirabaiotti.bsky.social, may I be added to the What's Science feed, please?
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Oliver Hofmann @fiamh.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
A good summary of the current work to develop the future of the Variant Call Format as we move towards millions of genomes in multiple places - help very much welcome! www.ga4gh.org/news_item/sc... #genomics #ga4gh
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 25/09/2023
🧬🖥️ The Sarek pipeline from #nfcore deserves a lot more attention.! Input fastq, bams, crams, vcfs - get a full state-of-the-art analysis. Rare to see such well maintained and flexible software in the open domain, please support: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Scalable and efficient DNA sequencing analysis on different compute infrastructures aiding variant d...
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Lasse Folkersen @folkersen.com · 15/09/2023
Hello world, now where is the "import Twitter network" button 😁
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