Jian Yang

Zhen-Xing Endowed Professor of Statistical Genetics, Westlake University

[Westlake University @Westlake_Uni]

✈️ Take a flight above Yungu with us. ✈️
🌳 New stunning drone footage of our Yungu Campus captures the scale, beauty, and energy of a campus designed for discovery. From cutting-edge laboratories and modern buildings to waterways and green spaces woven throughout the campus, every angle reflects our vision for the future of science, education, and global collaboration.🍃

#WestlakeUniversity #ThisIsWestlake #Drone #YunguCampus #StudyInChina

[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

[Alistair Forrest @Al__Forrest]

Welcoming @jyang1981 from @Westlake_Uni to #HCA2026Asia

Leader in #StatisticalGenetics now applying #spatial to mapping of cells for complex traits https://t.co/2szDw9Xjy2

Join us in Fremantle: https://t.co/fmhyNvJlJv
#HumanCellAtlas

Publications: https://t.co/8Lb6laxbuN

[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]

SMR just got a major efficiency upgrade.⚡️Check out the new release here: https://t.co/zmnyKGISbi

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: The 1000 Chinese Pangenome empowers medical and population genetics

https://t.co/H7JJ4krKkr

[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

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

The GTEx v10 eQTL data have been integrated into the SMR portal: https://t.co/kLXcqg9CJN

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

GCTA v1.95.1 (bug fix)

[Westlake University @Westlake_Uni]

Connecting genes, cells, and space. Liyang Song’s gsMap framework precisely maps genetic signals onto tissues and single cells, revealing the cellular origins of complex diseases and their spatial organization. Science, beautifully decoded.

🎉Celebrating Liyang Song as a 2025 Westlake Presidential Award winner! 🧬

#WestlakeUniversity #WhyWestlake #StudyAtWestlake #WestlakePresidentialAward #Westlake2025

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

Our non-coding RNA eQTL paper is out in AJHG!

[AJHG @AJHGNews]

📣 New from Chen et al!
📄 Genetic control of non-coding RNAs in the human brain and their implications for complex traits
https://t.co/AIBGnLRj1e

[Westlake University @Westlake_Uni]

🌏 It’s registration day!
Whether traveling across provinces or continents, our newest undergraduates have arrived—luggage in hand, dreams in heart, and ready to begin their journey as the Class of 2029.🌟

#WestlakeUniversity #ClassOf2029 #StudyAtWestlake #WhyWestlake #RegistrationDay #Convocation2025

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

We have a couple of updates to GCTA.

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

Faculty Positions in AI for Life Sciences at Westlake University https://t.co/AOPuExRAIn

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

A single-authored research highlight paper from our PhD student Liyang SONG is out now in Nature Review Genetics. @liyang_song

[Nature Reviews Genetics @NatureRevGenet]

New online! Mapping trait-associated cells with spatial transcriptomics https://t.co/bKtR0UHfoG

[Nature Methods @naturemethods]

Research Highlight by Lin Tang:

https://t.co/3Z3l7sShYh

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

This study shows that lowland individuals living at high altitude exhibit accelerated DNA methylation age. https://t.co/aqcynnZ7fo

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

gsMap paper online. Source code: https://t.co/J1YnfnJ1j6. Results visualisation website: https://t.co/mVKmv21wbZ.

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Spatially resolved mapping of cells associated with human complex traits

https://t.co/0d0HWN7KpY

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

@ShihchengGuo Will do. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Jian Yang @jyang1981]

The SMR Portal paper is now online. https://t.co/VXucSZpvpR