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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

LEAVING ACADEMIA Although I did not manage to secure the funding needed to establish my own research group, I am grateful for what I’ve learned in academia. *I am now beginning a new chapter*, joining a very early startup in France working on detecting cancer from DNA circulating in the blood.

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

But you shouldn’t use only 2 PCs to compute the distance 😉

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I probably won't have time to make a video out of this. But the materials are available online, and should be pretty self-explanatory. Hope this is useful to some people. privefl.github.io/statgen-cour...

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Statistical Human Genetics course using R

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Next week, I'm teaching a **Statistical Human Genetics course using R**; would be of interest if I try to record it to make it available as a Youtube video?

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Andrea Ganna @andganna.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

We have 2-3 group leader positions opening @fimm-uh.bsky.social !! We are looking for outstanding candidates in human genetics and precision medicine. This time we have a focus on population health data science. E.g. AI for EHR/health data Generous starting package 💰 shorturl.at/FAk6n

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FIMM-EMBL Group Leaders in Molecular Medicine

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Andrea Ganna @andganna.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We are looking for a post-doc/research fellow working on non-bullshit, reality-centered AI. Meaning: unique nationwide EHR and -omics with the possibility to recontact people and prospectively test multimodal AI approaches. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... @FIMM_UH @FinnGen_FI

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This is VERY big genetics & health news, Regeneron (Pharmaceutical company with v strong genetics in medicine arm) is going to buy 23andme. investor.regeneron.com/news-release...

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Alex Strudwick Young @alextisyoung.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I am recruiting a quantitative/computational postdoc to my group at UCLA. This is a great opportunity to work on foundational theory, methods, and software in statistical genetics. Link to apply: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10275. Please repost!

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Yes, but the sample sizes are quite small there.

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Thanks! I actually use a few people from the 1000G as well, to get a few more people from Finland, Japan, and South America. In the future I would like to also add the Papuan from the SGDP.

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

✅ In this paper, I used the UK Biobank to define 18 reference worldwide populations, and provided a method to easily infer ancestry proportions of individuals from your study more accurately. Please have it a try! Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bioi... Tutorial: privefl.github.io/bigsnpr/arti...

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

👀 I still see many papers using the 1000G data to infer ancestry proportions of individuals in their respective studies. ❌ But I argue that the 1000G is not doing a very good job at covering well the worldwide populations.

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Not sure. I think someone provided some VCF -> bed -> BGEN conversion. Not sure what is this DRAGEN.

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Did they update the BGEN files they provide? Initially they were missing 30% of variants.

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SMARTbiomed @smartbiomed.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

📢 Applications open for the SMARTbiomed Summer School! 🧠 Learn Causal Inference, Statistical Genetics & ML in R 📍 June 23–27 at the stunning Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark ⏳ Apply by April 19 — limited spots available! 👩‍🔬 For PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers 🔗 smartbiomed.dk/news-and-eve...

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Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Potential Main or Co-Supervisors include: Naomi Wray (Oxford), Peter Visscher (Oxford), Erin Gabriel (KU), Preben B Mortensen (AU), @eagerbo.bsky.social (AU), @privefl.bsky.social (AU), Thomas Gerds (KU), Julie Dreier (AU), and others.

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International Society of Psychiatric Genetics @ispg.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Join us for the ISPG Members' Meetup on March 26th! Dr. Oliver Pain will present his groundbreaking research on polygenic scores and the innovative GenoPred pipeline. Don't miss out: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #ISPG #Genetics #PolygenicScores #Bioinformatics

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I'll be there! This is a very affordable conference on Statistical Genetics methodologies 🤩

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Bjarni Vilhjalmsson @bvilhjal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

We're hiring Pioneer Fellow Postdocs!! Join us at the Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed to develop innovative methods in epidemiology, biostatistics, and statistical genetics, working with big biomedical data. international.au.dk/about/profil... #StatGen #Epi #Postdoc #SMARTbiomed

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Postdocs in Epidemiology or Statistical Genetics at The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Public Health - NCRR - National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

You’ve been murdered who do you want on the case?

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SMARTbiomed @smartbiomed.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed will leverage large-scale, multimodal biomedical data combined with focused innovation in statistical and computational methods including machine learning to advance our understanding, treatment, and prevention of human disease. Learn more about us: smartbiomed.dk

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The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed

The Pioneer Centre is anchored at Aarhus University and will be a collaboration of researchers from Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, and University of Oxford.

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SMARTbiomed @smartbiomed.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Looking for a PhD position in statistical methods development for causality? Then we might be looking for you! jobportal.ku.dk/alle-opslag/...

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PhD fellowships in Biostatistics and Causal inference at the SMARTbiomed Pioneer centre

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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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

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53rd European Mathematical Genetics Meeting - Sciencesconf.org

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Genetic PCs rarely provide large % of variation, but I don’t think it means they’re not useful. Try to look at the loadings if possible.

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I meant the looking of the PC scores. Did you look at the PC loadings?

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The PCA is indeed a bit odd; are you sure you’re not capturing LD instead of population structure?

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

My standing « desk », by the fireplace 😊

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Shai Carmi @shaicarmi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Very interesting work by Tade Souaiaia et al on the non-polygenic architecture of the extremes of complex traits. For many traits, polygenic scores show "regression to the mean" around the tails, as extreme traits are mostly due to rare alleles. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hello there; anyone else is here? 😃

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