feifei.cheng

PhD in Statistical Genetics @PCTGenomics @IMBatUQ | Postdoc at Westlake University @Westlake_Uni | former doctor

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

SV-GWAS is highly accessible now! Our new paper in @NatureGenet shows how HiFi long-read assemblies let us repurpose SNP-based GWAS data to impute structural variants (SVs) to interrogate their role in human complex traits and diseases. @WeiyangBai https://t.co/zSB90E3at0

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

Can we predict high myopia risk at birth? 👁️🧬 Our new @NatureGenetics paper leverages >1.7M people to decode the genetic basis of myopia. We trained a powerful risk prediction model—an early "warning radar" to protect vision. Proud of the team! https://t.co/U7qhvgllx0

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

Excited to see our work in @Nature! We combined our PIGA workflow & a cost-effective sequencing strategy to build the 1000 Chinese Pangenome (1KCP). We hope this methodology & resource help unlock complex variants in human health. @wang_yifei @DuanZhongqu
https://t.co/OahSS9cZPZ

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

153 million people will be living with dementia by 2050.

This figure can be cut in half by addressing these 14 risk factors.🧵

[Jian Zeng @JianZengR]

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER: Genetics & Genomics Winter School 2024!

Want to learn statistical methods and concepts in Genetics & Genomics? Don't miss out our in-person 1-week course (24-28 June, Brisbane).

For more info and to register (due on Friday!)
https://t.co/zuDjSkGpfz

[Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch]

Two new chapters from my open-access textbook in human population genetics are now online:
- Population structure: I. Ancestry estimation
- Population structure: II. More about admixture
https://t.co/GHMPCTv6BL

[Jian Zeng @JianZengR]

Join our Genetics & Genomics Winter School 2024 in June to learn about statistical and computational methods! Registration opens from 2nd April!
https://t.co/zuDjSkGpfz
@PCTGenomics @IMBatUQ

[Naomi Wray @WrayNaomi]

Postdoc position to join my new group @OxPsychiatry and @bdi_oxford. UKRI funded "CHECKPOINT: Finding immune & metabolic pathways to SMI" led by @edbullmore, direct supervision from @MLynall collaborating with @mcintosh2001 . https://t.co/3bioOSb8kx

[Mater Research @MaterResearch]

Congratulations to Mater Researcher @doyouseewhy
Dr Chloe Yap for being recognised at the @UQ_News 2023 Alumni Awards as Graduate of the year for exceptional academic achievement and contributions to the community!

Learn more about her research: https://t.co/JPg2D6OmAd

[Jian Zeng @JianZengR]

We are hosting a 2-day UK Biobank research symposium in Brisbane, 7-8 February 2024 with Sir Rory Collins (CEO of the UK Biobank) and Professor Thomas Nichols (neuroimaging statistician) as keynote speakers.

Abstract submission is due soon (1st December) https://t.co/sxOZQdT0ig

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

New GCTA version compatible with Apple M1 and M2 chips (ARM architecture).
https://t.co/9zxrmyxWM4

[Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo]

My wife, Denian, died at home, on Sunday, 30 July 2023.

She was diagnosed with glioblastoma in March 2018.

The last five years have been fulfilling. She saw births of two more grandchildren. She attended wedding of our second son. She pointed to me pretty spots on our walks.

[feifei.cheng @feifeicheng7]

??? an unexpected phenotype that is under genetic control, and the most significant signal is in the APOE region.

[feifei.cheng @feifeicheng7]

Super nice supervisor!!!

[Jian Zeng @JianZengR]

We are recruiting a postdoc in the Program for Complex Trait Genomics in the University of Queensland to work on developing methods to understand trait genetic architecture across human populations. Join us at the beautiful east coast of Australia! https://t.co/EiXZJQsE3p

[Jian Zeng @JianZengR]

We are recruiting a postdoc in the Program for Complex Trait Genomics in the University of Queensland to work on developing methods to understand trait genetic architecture across human populations. Join us at the beautiful east coast of Australia! https://t.co/EiXZJQsE3p

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

Ting’s paper is out. @TingQi2 Leveraging a powerful new method and large datasets, we established a comprehensive genetic regulation map of RNA splicing, which helped to reveal a distinct and essential role of RNA splicing in common traits and diseases. https://t.co/eXxHNIl3WD

[feifei.cheng @feifeicheng7]

How to bounce back from a PhD-project failure https://t.co/OjI1UYWwtk

[Muin J. Khoury @MuinJKhoury]

Epigenomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic data can be harnessed with machine learning to build ‘aging clocks’ with demonstrated capacity to identify new biomarkers of biological aging. Via @NatureRevGenet https://t.co/5ptbGxzYBk

[Mike Weale @mikeweale]

1/11 #medRxiv paper alert: “UK Biobank release and systematic evaluation of optimised polygenic risk scores for 53 diseases and quantitative traits” with @uk_biobank and @genomicsEngland https://t.co/fHC95ziZLc. The traditional tweetorial follows...

[Eric Fauman (he/him) @Eric_Fauman]

Why you can't use eQTLs to interpret GWAS hits:

A story in 2 parts