Anthony Herzig

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⏰ Don’t miss it! #EMGM2026 in Davos (Switzerland) 🏔️
📅 14–15 April 2026
📝 Abstract deadline: 1 February 2026
✈️ Travel grants available
🎤 Amazing lineup of invited speakers
🔗 Details: emgm2026.sciencesconf.org

Embryo selection company Herasight goes all in on eugenics ...

I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.

Identifying genes associated with disease outcomes using joint sparse canonical correlation analysis—An application in renal clear cell carcinoma Somatic changes like copy number aberrations (CNAs) and epigenetic alterations like methylation have pivotal effects on disease outcomes and prognosis in cancer, by regulating gene expressions, that ...

In our last journal club of the year, Diptavo Dutta will present his jsCCA method for integrating multi-omic data with clinical outcomes.

📅 Dec. 19, 2025
⏰ 11 am (EST), 8 am (PST), 5 pm (CET)
📍 Zoom
📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Register here: msm-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We don't want people to think you can see evil in the genome, but we'll call our Channel 4 documentary "Hitler's DNA: Blueprint of a dictator".

doi.org/10.21203/rs....

Do you want to help us restart the Genetic Analysis Workshop (GAW) series? Then fill out the form below!

For an example of what past GAWs were like, see this article in Genetic Epidemiology, our society's official journal: doi.org/10.1002/gepi...

Using the ancestral recombination graph to study the history of rare variants in founder populations This study statistically traces the transmission history of rare alleles within genealogies to impute carrier status and regional allele frequencies. It uses the approach to find that imputed carriers...

📣New from Mejia-Garcia et al.!
📄Using the ancestral recombination graph to study the history of rare variants in founder populations
🖥️ github.com/almejiaga/AR...

Postdoctoral researcher in human population genetics - Brest (Arrondissement), Finistère (FR) job with French National Institute for Health Research (INSERM) | 12846824 A post-doctoral position in human population genetics is opening in Brest, France to work on the Genome of Europe (GoE Project).

Looking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher in human population genetics nature.com/naturecareer... - come and discover Brest, France!

GAW (Genetic Analysis Workshop) Revival Interest Form If you are interested in helping to renew the Genetic Analysis Workshops, please provide your contact information below. We will follow up with more information soon.

It was great seeing many of you at #ASHG25! Based on the discussions at our IGES meetup, we are considering reviving the Genetic Analysis Workshop (GAW) series.

If you are possibly interested in helping out, fill out this form and we will get in touch: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🧬 New multi-trait genetic paper on asthma heterogeneity from Emmanuelle Bouzigon's lab and lead by Raphaël Vernet in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Unraveling shared genetics across asthma subtypes and 81 asthma-related traits

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Impact of co-occurrent assortative mating and vertical cultural transmission on measures of genetic associations Assortative mating for a given phenotype is the phenomenon by which mates select each other based on their phenotypic similarity. Other phenomena can create positive correlation between the parents' a...

Our pre-print on assortative mating has been updated: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Postdoctoral researcher in human population genetics - Brest (Arrondissement), Finistère (FR) job with French National Institute for Health Research (INSERM) | 12846824 A post-doctoral position in human population genetics is opening in Brest, France to work on the Genome of Europe (GoE Project).

Looking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher in human population genetics nature.com/naturecareer... - come and discover Brest, France!

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

How population stratification led to a decade of sensationally false genetic findings Stratification makes environments look like genes

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 🧵:

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

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.

Tickets : EMGM2025 Tickets : EMGM2025 - Billetweb

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

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#Genetics #ScienceConference #ESHG #ESHG2025

abstracts submitted can be edited up until the deadline, no need to wait until the last minute 😉

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