Andres Moreno-Estrada

Clinically relevant variants from the Mexican biobank show striking diversity across Hispanic people - Nature Medicine Ancestry-aware genomic analyses of 6,011 people from the Mexican Biobank characterized allele frequency variation in 42,769 clinically relevant variants across Mexico, accounting for local ancestry an...

Check out the associated Research Briefing paper on MexVar by Nature Medicine (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and a great piece by Jennie Smith covering the study findings for Science Magazine (www.science.org/content/arti.... and stay tuned for the Nature Medicine cover coming up!

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🧬 MexVar

MexVar allows ancestry-specific frequency exploration of genetic variants nationwide and is available here: morenolab.shinyapps.io/mexvar/ Credit goes to Carmina Barberena, Vianka Cedillo Castelan, Santiago Medina, Alex Ioannidis, Lourdes Garcia, Moreno Lab members, and the ENSA Genomics Consortium.

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Clinical genetic variation across Hispanic populations in the Mexican Biobank - Nature Medicine Analyzing data of the Mexican Biobank project, a new study finds regional differences in clinically relevant genetic frequencies and presents MexVar, a publicly accessible resource designed to support...

Our paper on clinically relevant genetic variation in the MX Biobank is out today in Nature Medicine! Big congrats to PhD student Carmina Barberena, who led the development of the MexVar platform. A joint effort by Cinvestav, INSP, INCMNSZ, LIIGH, UNAM, and UCSC www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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It was great to visit the @salkinstitute.bsky.social for this amazing CARTA symposium on aDNA. Thanks @anthropogeny.org for the invitation! (and for the position at USC for one day 😜) www.youtube.com/live/HM9EhCE...

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Hi Bluesky! My lab has recently moved to Mexico City, so we are starting a new era of the Moreno Lab! Still at Cinvestav Research Center but brand new building, new projects, and lots of possibilities for LATAM ahead! 🇲🇽 🌎

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