Vamsee Pillalamarri

PhD Candidate in Human Genetics & MD-GEM Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine @ Arking Lab | Prev: @TalkowskiLab, Carnegie Mellon alum @SCSatCMU @CMUCompBio

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@el_grosvenor @ellen_howerton Hope y’all having fun!

[Joel Hirschhorn @joelhirschhorn]

Excited that the GIANT consortium height GWAS: A Saturated Map of Common Genetic Variants Associated with Human Height from 5.4 Million Individuals of Diverse Ancestries https://t.co/U0Scz1n7Nj is on biorxiv! Great effort from 100s of investigators and GIANT height working group,

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@BurcuDarst @fredhutch @UW Congrats, Burcu!

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@valerie_morrill @JHalfordMD @steven_lubitz Congrats Valerie! Interested to dig into the results, could be interesting to see if variant classification via this approach could be used to weight variants in aggregate burden tests!

[bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv_genomic]

Mitochondrial DNA variation across 56,434 individuals in gnomAD https://t.co/uVemDNQfO2 #biorxiv_genomic

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@genepisociety @SarnowskiChloe @ProfJoseeDupuis Will there be a journal club and if so when / how does one sign up? Thanks!

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@krakengoddess @AcademicChatter deaths in Stephen King's work - sounds fascinating!

[Leandros Boukas @LeandrosBoukas]

Apart from interesting insights into the polygenic architecture of even "simple" molecular traits, imho this study serves as yet another proof that should convince GWAS skeptics that GWAS work (= uncover biology).

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@LeandrosBoukas Interesting insight into polygenic risk prediction.

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@YijunLi9 This is awesome

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

I’m just a vote, (hopefully not just) sitting on Capitol Hill..

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@neuralink What is the potential of Neuralink to help advance Genetics of neuropsychiatric disorders? Do genetics affect how well Neuralink is able to interface with the brain? @neuralink #genetics

[Sek Kathiresan MD @skathire]

Proof-of-concept for an entire new way to treat heart attack:
a gene editing medicine,
administered once in life,
safely turn off a gene -->
permanently lower cholesterol or triglycerides

A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys https://t.co/xwmekswwah

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@mrmjprice @AcademicChatter once you get past four, it's inception. you can play around with ideas - implant them where needed - so that they pay off a whole chapter later. much fun.

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@KristinaGarske Also don’t forget to unmute yourself first

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@efaithd Nice!

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@el_grosvenor That’s awesome! I’ve been interested in getting involved with this! Where / how can I do this?

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

FYI Covid-19 cases in India (30th Jan —> 20th March), 88% of total cases are hospitalized, prevalence is highest in Maharashtra
https://t.co/D6zalx04k2

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@efaithd No once knew who was in charge and what obj. was. Ppl were interested mostly in getting credit. In fact, 10 yrs later, I can be found randomly humblebragging my involvement with that on the internet. I still don’t know what I did but did I mention I got a medal

[Vamsee Pillalamarri @vkpillal]

@efaithd Government orgs often form task forces like you suggest to marshall resources and scientists. But it often is dysfunctional. I was involved in one during the 2010 Haitian earthquake with the US army southern command and MIT. 1 of 2