Researchers from the Raffield lab, as well as Raffield lab collaborators from the Li lab group had presentations or posters at the American Society for Human Genetics annual meeting (Nov. 1-5 2023). Brian Chen held his oral presentation Proteome-Wide Association Study Using Cis and Trans Variants and Applied to Blood Cell and Lipid-Related Traits in … Read more
Katherine was awarded the Biostatistics Undergraduate Summer Internships (BUSI) Program End-of-Summer Research Symposium Best Poster Award for her poster Cross-Platform Comparison of Type 2 Diabetes Proteomic Signatures in the Jackson Heart Study. This award is given annually to most accomplished poster presentations at the symposium.
Madeline Gillman was appointed to the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) T32 Training Grant. Her proposal focused on QTLs for longitudinal ‘omic trajectory measures in TOPMed. Congratulations, Madeline!
Emily Drzymalla presented the poster “Association between neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in large biobank cohorts” at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) meeting in Amsterdam July 19, 2023. We look forward to sharing a manuscript describing these findings soon!
Le Huang presented the poster “Metabolite prediction models in UK Biobank: A metabolome-wide association study (MWAS)“ at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting in Los Angeles, Oct, 2022. We look forward to sharing a manuscript describing these findings soon.
With many collaborators from TOPMed, the Raffield lab was pleased to contribute to recent whole genome sequencing based publications for red blood cell, white blood cell, and platelet related traits. These publications identified novel single variant signals for these heritable hematological measures, despite the 10x smaller sample size versus existing analyses of imputed genotyped data … Read more
Jayna Nicholas was appointed to the Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) T32 Training Grant. Her proposal focused on improved understanding of discordant pQTLs across proteomics platforms in diverse cohort studies from TOPMed. Congratulations, Jayna!
Sarthi Patil was awarded the Biostatistics Undergraduate Summer Internships (BUSI) Program End-of-Summer Research Symposium Best Poster Presentation Award for her poster entitled TWAS Training for Jackson Heart Study Cohort. Sarthi is working to train transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) models using newly generated RNA-seq data from the Jackson Heart Study. Congratulations, Sarthi!
Jayna Nicholas presented the poster “Fibrinogen Associated Plasma Metabolites and Implications for Cardiovascular Disease Risk“ at the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) meeting in Philadelphia, PA April 28, 2022. We look forward to sharing a manuscript describing these findings soon.