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Alice Braun

@alicebraun.bsky.social

Statistical geneticist interested in complex traits @ripkelab.bsky.social and @broadinstitute.org ๐Ÿงฌโš”๏ธ Professional dungeon master @home

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Our project, looking at the genetic relationships between immune diseases and psychiatric disorders, has finally been published! Now with gene expression analyses as well as additional sensitivity analyses, thanks to reviewers. Find the full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

21.07.2025 19:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wonderful thread about mentors. @nature.com โ€˜s mentorship award is open for noms now: www.nature.com/nature/award...

08.06.2025 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Effects of parental autoimmune diseases on type 1 diabetes in offspring can be partially explained by HLA and non-HLA polymorphisms Leveraging Finnish nationwide multi-generational registers and the biobanks of FinnGen, Wang, Liu, etย al. investigated the effect of parental autoimmune diseases on offspring T1D. Their creative and r...

Why do children with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) often have parents with autoimmune diseases?

Our new study shows parental autoimmune conditions affect offspringโ€™s T1D risk through complex genetic factors, including both HLA and non-HLA variants.

๐Ÿ”— www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

25.04.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is really cool :) I'd love to be a beta tester

13.03.2025 17:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - Ripkelab/ricopili: Main ricopili repo for public releases Main ricopili repo for public releases. Contribute to Ripkelab/ricopili development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Ripke lab has worked on a new stable release of RICOPILI! Updates include compatibility with GRCh38 and imputation using Minimac4. A software tarball and YAML file are provided to help resolve dependency issues:
github.com/Ripkelab/ric...
Any feedback is highly welcome!
@pgcgenetics.bsky.social

12.03.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A tour de force review of the connections between between the nervous and immune systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

12.02.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 411    ๐Ÿ” 110    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Prioritizing effector genes at trait-associated loci using multimodal evidence Nature Genetics - FLAMES is a machine learning approach combining variant fine-mapping, SNP-to-gene annotations and convergence-based gene prioritization scores to identify candidate effector genes...

Incredibly proud to see our latest work out in Nature Genetics: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here we share our FLAMES framework, which predicts the effector genes in GWAS loci with state-of-the-art precision๐Ÿ”ฅ

Special thanks to @daniposthu.bsky.social

A full thread describing findings below!

11.02.2025 09:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The goldmine of GWAS summary statistics: a systematic review of methods and tools - BioData Mining Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revolutionized our understanding of the genetic architecture of complex traits and diseases. GWAS summary statistics have become essential tools for various...

impressive, superhelpful review listing 100s tools for GWAS analysis, with important focus on summary data interpretation

biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

23.01.2025 22:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Postdoc - Autism Research โ€“ 23andMe Careers Read about our mission-based culture, look up open positions and check out the perks of working here.

We're hiring a postdoc to help shape our autism research program; please consider applying.

www.23andme.com/careers/jobs...

21.01.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats everyone!!!

14.01.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Assessment and ascertainment in psychiatric molecular genetics: challenges and opportunities for cross-disorder research - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Assessment and ascertainment in psychiatric molecular genetics: challenges and opportunities for cross-disorder research

Last work tweet of 2024 (maybe ๐Ÿ˜‰): I, Ken Kendler, Brad Verhulst, @jorsmo.bsky.social and @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social et al in the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Cross Disorder Group (PGC-CDG) wrote a review on challenges studying cross disorder (psych) genetics: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

27.12.2024 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - MichelNivard/awesome-complex-trait-genetics: A list of awesome tools for complex trait genetics. A list of awesome tools for complex trait genetics. - MichelNivard/awesome-complex-trait-genetics

๐Ÿšจ This will become a curated list of awesome tools for complex trait genetics, **add yours**! it may become a review in which case those who contribute are invited as co-authors.

28.11.2024 09:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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RICOPILI RICOPILI stands for Rapid Imputation and COmputational PIpeLIne for GWAS - It is developed and maintained by Stephan Ripke at the Broad Institute and MGH. The software consists of four independent mo...

yes unfortunately it's just the code without documentation at the moment. The documentation can be found on this website: sites.google.com/a/broadinsti...

18.12.2024 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - WansonChoi/HATK: A collection of modules to process and analyze IMGT-HLA sequences. A collection of modules to process and analyze IMGT-HLA sequences. - WansonChoi/HATK

Really cool effort!

How about showing the MHC some love by adding HLA-TAPAS github.com/immunogenomi... and HATK github.com/WansonChoi/H...?

Although not really a post-GWAS tool: RICOPILI for QC and data processing (some much needed updates are underway): github.com/Ripkelab/ric...

18.12.2024 13:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thanks for the valued colleague award @pgcgenetics.bsky.social, which traveled all the way from Singapore to Berlin!

03.12.2024 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

NOW HIRING
#postdocjobs
NIH funding for a #postdoc with interest in complex genetics / computation / analysis
#GWAS #rarevariants #polygenicriskscores
in multiple research contexts:
psychiatric genomics; cognitive genomics; embryo screening...
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25.11.2024 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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