A new study suggests one in 100 people with grandparents from the Scottish island of Orkney has a specific mutation of the BRCA1 gene. Collaboration with Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
Publication is covered by the BBC:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe0348
Genome-wide significant risk loci for mood disorders in the Old Order Amish founder population, led by Elizabeth Humphries at the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine is now out at Molecular Psychiatry.
Xóchitl Díaz at the Días Académicos LIIGH talks about her simulation project evaluating different regression methods.
Publication led by Liat Salzer‐Sheelo, Avi Fellner, and Naama Orenstein at the Schneider Children’s medical center in Tel Aviv Israel, Biallelic truncating variants in the muscular A‐type lamin‐interacting protein (MLIP) gene cause myopathy with hyperCKemia is published in the European Journal of Neurology
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ene.15218
Collaborating with the NIDDK, Yunhua Muller lead the publication of the manuscript A missense variant Arg611Cys in LIPE which encodes hormone sensitive lipase decreases lipolysis and increases risk of type 2 diabetes in American Indians, out now in Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews:
Just out in Science. Missense variant in B4GALT1 associated with ~14mg/dL lower LDL and 30 mg/dL fibrinogen present in 6% of Lancaster Old Order Amish, extremely rare elsewhere. Decreased risk of CAD in meta analysis of large populations with electronic health records. Really beautiful mouse model that validates B4GALT1 activity and quantitative trait associations observed in humans.
‘The burden of pathogenic variants in clinically actionable genes in a founder population’ now available online at the American Journal of Medical Genetics.
‘Genome-wide association analysis of serum alanine and aspartate aminotransferase, and the modifying effects of BMI in 388k European individuals’ is now out at Genetic Epi.
‘Genome-wide survey of parent-of-origin-specific associations across clinical traits derived from electronic health records’ is now available at Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. Parent-of-origin (PoO) effects are differential phenotypic impacts of genetic variants dependent on their parental inheritance due to imprinting. While PoO effects can influence complex traits, they may be poorly captured by models that do not differentiate the parental origin of the variant. The aim of this study was to conduct genome-wide screen for PoO effects on a broad range of clinical traits derived from electronic health records (EHR). Also, this paper marks the grand finish line of Hye In Kim’s @HyeIn_Kim267 post doctoral training. Congratulations!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666247721000208
About the graphic
With a little time, and a ‘few lines of code’, a person can build something, possibly interesting. This is a very simple example of generative art created using R and the jasmines library amongst many others. Ultimately, this ‘few lines of code’ rely on substantial development efforts by others, and made available publicly. What a wonderful concept!