Eric Fauman (he/him)

GWAS whisperer

'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution'

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Executive Director, Integrative Biology @Pfizer

[Eric Fauman (he/him) @Eric_Fauman]

All my new content is going here

https://t.co/yT7auABCsT

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@TheNikhilMilind Great tweetorial. Thank you for doing this analysis.

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Love this paper

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In #GENETICS, @kauralasoo, @Eric_Fauman, and colleagues show how horizontal pleiotropy can mislead Mendelian randomization to infer implausible causal relationships between an exposure and an outcome. https://t.co/OD4jv3FYd5

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@doctorveera I was standing right at the front of the room!

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@morestrada Here's my selfie from the grand ballroom!

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Through @kauralasoo's tireless work, this neat story of HAL and sunburn has finally seen the light of day!

https://t.co/InHsXrRpvz

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@BrentRichards19 Interestingly variants in HAL have also been associated with risk of sun burn and skin cancer.
https://t.co/tIFSqS2boN

What's going on here?

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@panomics @AdrianoAguzzi This is the correct answer

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Not bad. Twitter used to be a nice place to do science.

[Grok @grok]

@Eric_Fauman @mbeisen @JoezMcfLy Based on public interactions, the most famous person to visit your profile is Atul Butte, the renowned bioinformatics expert and UCSF distinguished professor who engaged with your GWAS posts.

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@grok @mbeisen @JoezMcfLy Hey @grok, who's the most famous person to visit my profile or posts.

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@caina89 Very interesting work. Did you validate on phenotypes with known subtypes like T2D or HbA1c (hematologic vs glycemic)?

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@grok @BabooBott678 @TheTNHoller @JessicaTarlov @grok has Donald Trump ever bismirched the rasmussen poll?

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@DrAnneCarpenter @iRanitK The mind map feature is very nice. The pod cast feature seems gimicky at first but it's actually a fun way to make a new pile of research papers accessible for your commute.

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@KSusztak @CellCellPress I love how they included a tongue in the graphical abstract so we'd know which organ we're talking about.

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@MariosGeorgakis Key insight:

"At 72% of the gold-standard gene loci, other eGenes were detected providing potentially misleading gene targets."

When the true causal gene was not an eGene "other eGenes were detected in 70% of the loci, which may lead to a misleading inference"

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@jmuiuc @anshulkundaje "Reckless" implies the regime's actions are inadvertent.

The goal of trump and the Republicans is to destroy scientific research and higher education in the US.

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The most famous heuristic in mapping gwas snps to genes is

"it's usually the closest gene".

But only slightly less well-known is this:

"consider the colocalized phenotypes."
https://t.co/6nKcKYC29t

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It's not a "shake up".

It is the gutting of science in the United States.

[Matthew Herper @matthewherper]

NHGRI director Eric Green is out as Trump NIH shakeup continues https://t.co/Zd8RovUa1b

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@catgyoung That is the pretense.

This regime is destroying research institutions because that's what autocracies do in order to centralize power and control the narrative.

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@MariosGeorgakis This would be so much better on bluesky...

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My best stuff is on bluesky

https://t.co/QE979aDv5O