TheWillerLab

The Willer Lab at the University of Michigan is part of the Departments of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics.

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

It's been a big week for the Willer Lab. Nice work @wu_khh and team!

[Kuan-Han Wu @wu_khh]

Our hearts are glad to share our preprint on using genetic information to uncover susceptibility to heart failure, as part of the Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative (GBMI) @GlobalBiobanks.

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

Our paper is officially (and finally) out!

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

a real team effort - congrats to @SarahEGraham1 on the this officially being out!

[U-M Medical School Research @UMichMedScience]

NEW in @Nature from @cristenw and colleagues: The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids.

https://t.co/Sweb4XX4Gl

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

@cristenw The team made it possible! [@SarahEGraham1, @ShoaClarke, Hank Wu, @StavroulaKanoni, Greg Zajac, @shramdas, @pnatarajanmd, Gina Peloso, @casey6r0wn, @profadmorris, @tassimes, and the contribution of MVP, Panos Deloukas, Yan Sun, and our very own @cristenw]

[U-M Medical School Research @UMichMedScience]

New in @NatureMedicine from @cristenw, @minouye271 and colleagues: Responsible use of polygenic risk scores in the clinic: potential benefits, risks and gaps.

Dr. Willer addresses the big questions:
https://t.co/JfCdBdoqCo

[Wei Zhou @weizhouw]

Friday, October 22, at 11:45 a.m. @bnwolford will present #1372 a collaboration by @LabWiller and Dr. Jordan Shavit's (@Clot1) lab titled "Multi-ancestry GWAS for venous thromboembolism identifies novel loci followed by experimental validation"
https://t.co/x9VMUfBc8s

[Brooke N. Wolford, PhD @bnwolford]

Highly recommend two #ASHG21 poster talks by talented grad students today! The first is "Polygenic score from a large GWAS predicts cases of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction but not preserved ejection fraction" by Kuan-Han Wu of @LabWiller.

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

some Mondays are better than others!

[ASHG @GeneticsSociety]

In this month's Inside @AJHGNews, we check in with Cristen Willer and Tanmoy Roychowdhury to discuss their paper, Regulatory variants in TCF7L2 are associated with thoracic aortic aneurysm. Read more: https://t.co/WgBk5IlZpo

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

She’s the best PI around! @cristenw

[ASHG @GeneticsSociety]

Cristen J. Willer, PhD is the recipient of the 2021 Early-Career Award. Her work uses computational approaches to generate bioinformatics data to improve the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Read more in the press release. https://t.co/Ky68owbh6J

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

We are looking for TWO new postdocs: one in bulk and scRNA analyses and one in genomic discovery. APPLY if you're interested!

RNA: https://t.co/2yIp8WdUXl
DNA: https://t.co/cbAsXBWXUU

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

@TanmoyRoychow13 with a new paper in @AJHGNews!

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

We think she is the best PI around, @cristenw. Congratulations Dr. Willer! https://t.co/ZDKvAv9x3d

[Brooke N. Wolford, PhD @bnwolford]

Very pleased to have a chapter of my dissertation with @cristenw out in the world as a pre-print. What started as a rotation project evaluating the use of family history in GWAS led to some interesting observations about family history in @theHUNTstudy.

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

We’re nice people. We do solid science.

[Centre for Personalised Medicine, Oxford (+ bsky) @CPMOxford]

Join us on Tuesday when @cristenw and @RajaniAatre will discuss a really important topic - what do we do when we find actionable genetic variants in biobank participants? Hear about their recent experience and views on this dilemma.

Sign up: https://t.co/VmJGuW1lor

[Nicky Whiffin @nickywhiffin]

Super excited to have @cristenw speak to us at @CPMOxford about this awesome work with Rajani Aatre:

"What we learned about returning research genetic results to patients in aortic clinic:A conversation with a Genomic Scientist and a Clinical Genetic Counsellor."

Sign up link👇

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

Our latest publication is online! Together with colleagues from @umichCVC and the Genetic Counseling team at U of M, we describe the disclosure of thoracic aortic dissection pathogenic variants to biobank participants. @cristenw
https://t.co/PIaC7QcbQU

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

Work led by Hank Wu, @WhitneyHornsby, and @cristenw is out today in @PLOSONE! How COVID-19 impacted Michiganders? Read about it here: https://t.co/xRg4UWfhat

[TheWillerLab @LabWiller]

Big congratulations to post-doc @TanmoyRoychow13 for receiving the 2020 BIRD Award [https://t.co/Sg615s0gmp] from the Bioclues Organization in India, for making outstanding contributions in the area of Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics!