Today we launch The Australian DNA Bridge, a study focused on individuals with mixed ancestries to help us make genetic discoveries that are more accurate, inclusive, and equitable across all populations.
Want to learn more? Follow the link.
[https://australiandnabridgestudy.org/]
A project many years in the process, we’re pleased to present our work on multi-ancestry meta-analysis across a boatload of traits in the UK Biobank: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A stack of bricks 🧱 or a luxury frog sauna? 🐸
Many species seek out these warm enclosures and, excitingly, regular visits on warm days can help fight against deadly chytrid fungus too. The fungus is sensitive to heat. ~28°C (82°F) is enough to limit chytrid growth 🧪🌏
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A few thoughts on Herasight, the new embryo selection company. First, their whitepaper (drive.google.com/file/d/1EpFi...) implies that competitors like Nucleus have been marketing and selling grossly erroneous risk estimates. This is shocking if true! 🧵
Around 10 years ago, we saw Mark Thomas’ 100 acts of minor dissent show, where he pointed out that is obviously the correct pronunciation.
He also ran a comp to find the best new definition of farage: the liquid found at the bottom of a bin or waste container. 🤌
www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/m...
The decline in child mortality in many low- to middle-income countries in the last 30 years has been quite remarkable.
Ethiopia's rate fell from 20% to 5%.
Improvements in child mortality in rich countries look pretty meagre by comparison. But that's only when looking at it in absolute terms.
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This is mortifying. It's the kind of calculation you would normally make about a dictatorship.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Looks like a nice resource:
* Array genetic data for 80,638 Japanese children
* 1,163 child health and developmental traits (e.g. food allergy, anthropometric, developmental)
* Parental environmental exposures
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
How often is the man you think is your father ... not actually your genetic father? "Genetic genealogist" @maartenlarmuseau.bsky.social uses painstakingly researched family trees and Y chromosomes from modern men to find out how common extra-pair paternity really is. @science.org
Excited to finally share that our paper looking at the effect of rare non-coding variants using WGS on circulating protein levels in the UKB has been released in Nature Genetics @naturegenet.bsky.social! We now analyse the full 3,000 circulating proteins in all 50,000 individuals rdcu.be/ea16i
TBtypeR enables detection of low-frequency mixed-strain Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections from whole genome sequencing data, revealing a higher prevalence of mixed-strain infections in analyzed patient datasets.
@jemunro.bsky.social @wehi-research.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
This work was in collaboration with Uni Washington - could even be the same group running the study you took part in!
Thanks for volunteering your time for research, I’m glad you found the experience worthwhile ☺️
Plus a nice write up in the Herald Sun!
www.heraldsun.com.au/health/condi...
