Mashaal Sohail

Mashaal Sohail

@mashaals.bsky.social

Evolutionary and statistical geneticist. Associate Professor at Center for Genomic Sciences, UNAM. http://sohaillab.com UNAM | U Chicago | Langebio | Harvard | MIT 🇵🇰🇺🇸🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈

324 Followers 552 Following 19 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 months ago
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Silenced genomes - Nature Medicine Projects worldwide push for more diverse genomic databases across Asia, Africa and the Americas.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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6 months ago

Lo logramos! @paleogenomics.bsky.social @vvillaislas.bsky.social @mashaals.bsky.social @jcchacond.bsky.social #EduardoArrieta #AngelesTavares #MiriamBravo, #AleCastillo #MarceSandoval, Muchas gracias por su gran entusiasmo, dedicación y entrega. (Ayúdenme a taggear a quienes hacen falta).

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7 months ago
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Leena Peltonen School of Human Genetics in full-swing!

@gosiatrynka.bsky.social
@dgmacarthur.bsky.social
@bpasaniuc.bsky.social
@tuuliel.bsky.social
@hilarycmartin.bsky.social
@sashagusevposts.bsky.social
@zkutalik.bsky.social
@mashaals.bsky.social
@alemedinarivera.bsky.social

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8 months ago

@biointeractive.bsky.social ambassadors are from the US, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico, and are doing the important work of developing, workshopping and studying teaching materials that will shape the minds of the youth.

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8 months ago
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Absolutely wonderful experience helping train HHMI bioambassadors to teach high school and college biology in non-deterministic frameworks and with a deep understanding of the multi-scale complexity of human genetic variation @biointeractive.bsky.social @hhmijanelia.bsky.social

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8 months ago
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Genes entrelazados, historias compartidas YouTube video by elcolegionacionalmx

Mi charla como parte del serie de charlas públicas sobre Genética humana y Paleogenómica

Genes entrelazados, historias compartidas
Intertwined genes, shared histories

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naen...

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8 months ago
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Genómica Humana Y Paleogenómica // Human Genetics and Paleogenomics - YouTube Since our origins we have wondered where we come from. The research on genomics, paleogenomics and the human genome are now providing answers on this questio...

Full cycle of talks on Human Genetics and Paleogenomics is available on YouTube with El Colegio Nacional MX Fundación UNAM (some in English and some in Spanish) @sarahtishkoff.bsky.social @jnovembre.bsky.social @fsanchezquinto.bsky.social @gcbias.bsky.social and others!

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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9 months ago

Happy to have worked on this project with @mashaals.bsky.social , Emilia Huerta-Sanchez and Valeria Añorve-Garibay. We analyzed how stabilizing and directional selection cause problems to predict traits in ancient samples.

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9 months ago
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¿Qué pistas nos puede dar la genética sobre la historia evolutiva humana? | 🪨 🌎 "¿Qué pistas nos puede dar la genética sobre la historia evolutiva humana? Perspectivas de estudios globales".🧬🤔 👉 Coor... 🪨 🌎 "¿Qué pistas nos puede dar la genética sobre la historia evolutiva humana? Perspectivas de estudios globales".🧬🤔 👉 Coordinan: Lic. Dionisio A....

Thanks, it was fixed, and shortly the whole talk will be available there on YT. It was also streaming on facebook.
www.facebook.com/fundacion.un...

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9 months ago

Our new work is now out in AJHG "Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples." Great collaboration with @delvecchyo.bsky.social and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, led by Valeria Añorve-Garibay.

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9 months ago
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Race, ethnicity don’t match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study Data from the All of Us program confirm what many geneticists have long promoted

www.science.org/content/arti...

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9 months ago
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Subcontinental genetic variation in the All of Us Research Program: Implications for biomedical research Analysis of 230,016 genomes in the All of Us Research Program revealed substantial variation in continental and subcontinental ancestry within self-reported race and ethnicity across the US. Subcontin...

Subcontinental genetic variation in the All of Us Research Program: Implications for biomedical research
www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

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9 months ago
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KODAMA goes spatial.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#spatialtranscriptomics #visium #visiumhd #seurat #giotto

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10 months ago
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“Genes and geography: understanding human genetic variation” by @jnovembre.bsky.social, second talk in this cycle of talks on Human genomics and Paleogenomics for a general audience.
Tuesday 29th November 12pm Mexico City time/1pm central time/2pm est.

colnal.mx/agenda/genes...

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10 months ago
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African evolutionary genomics: reconstructing human evolution and the genetic basic of complex adaptive traits by @sarahtishkoff.bsky.social, Tuesday 22nd April 12pm Mexico City time.

colnal.mx/agenda/afric...

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Honored to be mentioned for my contributions in human evolutionary genetics!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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11 months ago
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Register for the UPennn symposium on “Inclusive Genomics to Promote Health Excellence” organized by @sarahtishkoff.bsky.social and @bpasaniuc.bsky.social at the Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity and the Center for Computational Biomedicine.
Link: upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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11 months ago
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Fine-mapping in admixed populations using CARMA-X, with applications to Latin American studies CARMA-X is a robust fine-mapping method for admixed populations, leveraging ancestry-specific data to identify putative causal variants. By modeling cross-ancestry correlations and accounting for LD v...

📣New from Yang et al.
📄Fine-mapping in admixed populations using CARMA-X, with applications to Latin American studies
www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac...

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11 months ago
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Fine-mapping in admixed populations using CARMA-X, with applications to Latin American studies CARMA-X is a robust fine-mapping method for admixed populations, leveraging ancestry-specific data to identify putative causal variants. By modeling cross-ancestry correlations and accounting for LD v...

Nice collaboration with Luliana Lonita-Laza's group at Columbia. "Fine-mapping in admixed populations using CARMA-X, with applications to Latin American studies" now out in
@ajhgnews.bsky.social
@scientist-ninja.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kqIJgeXDypv
www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

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11 months ago
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The trait-specific timing of accelerated genomic change in the human lineage Kun et al. examine the timing of accelerated genomic changes in human evolution by linking human traits to genomic annotations related to distinct evolutionary points. Their findings reveal that skele...

When in evolutionary time does accelerated genomic change occur across phenotypes? Our study out in Cell Genomics led by Eucharist Kun, with Vagheesh Narasimhan integrates comparative, functional, and ancient genomic data with GWAS. Read more www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

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Evolution, genetic diversity, and health - Nature Medicine This Perspective explains how past migrations and environmental exposures have influenced genomic diversity, and how understanding and contextualizing this diversity is crucial to advancing precision ...

New perspective "Evolution, genetic diversity and health" led by PhD student @madmaxolotl.bsky.social and post-doc @scientist-ninja.bsky.social in @naturemedicine.bsky.social
nature.com/articles/s41...
PDF here: rdcu.be/eczeW

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1 year ago
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Hoy nos la pasamos muy bien en Mutante, con @mashaals.bsky.social

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1 year ago
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Tracing human trait evolution through integrative genomics and temporal annotations Understanding the evolution of human traits is a fundamental yet challenging question. In a recent Cell Genomics article, Kun et al. integrate large-scale genomic and phenotypic data, including deep-l...

Tracing human trait evolution through integrative genomics and temporal annotations, a preview of our recent study with Eucharist Kun and Vagheesh Narasimhan
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

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1 year ago
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🌟 Excited to teach at The Leena Peltonen School of Human Genetics in 2025!

This prestigious summer school brings together leaders in human genetics with PhD students

📅 July 27-31, 2025

📍 Wellcome Genome Campus, UK

📝 Apply by March 7 at www.lpshg.com

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1 year ago

Excited to share our pre-print "The multi-scale complexity of human genetic variation beyond continental groups" biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Global Genomic Network Communities browser: sohail-lab.shinyapps.io/GG-NC/
Github: github.com/mariajpalma/...
See🧵by lead author @madmaxolotl.bsky.social

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