Jeremy J. Berg

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Jeremy J. Berg

Jeremy J. Berg

@JeremyJBerg

Assistant Prof of Human Genetics @UChicago. Working at the intersection of population, statistical and quantitative genetics. tweets my own. he/him/his

Katılım Kasım 2012
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Matthias Steinrücken
Matthias Steinrücken@matt_stoneback·
I am looking for a postdoc to work in theoretical population genetics. We focus on theory and methods for inferring demographic histories and selection using modern and ancient genomic data. Come join our amazing community in Chicago. More info here: steinrueckenlab.uchicago.edu/files/2024/11/…
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Jeremy J. Berg@JeremyJBerg·
@philipcball Yeah I got ten pages in and put it down. I’ve been told that the translation improves in the second book, but just couldn’t make it…
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Yuval Simons
Yuval Simons@yuvalsim·
I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined the Section of Genetic Medicine at the University of Chicago as an assistant professor! The Simons lab is officially open! yuvalsimons.org
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Michael Baym
Michael Baym@baym·
This isn't a new thought, but I'm wondering today how much of the pervasive sense of burnout or disengagement among life science professors today is a sense of soft institutional betrayal for the last three years. That our institutions do not share our morals
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Barbara Engelhardt
Barbara Engelhardt@BeEngelhardt·
Those group meetings were magic. If you know, you know -- equations derived on-the-fly, discussions of one figure for an hour, wiping the white board to explain a biological process, and happy hours afterwards. Together, we learned so much @__yoson__ @bidumit @JeremyJBerg
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Barbara Engelhardt
Barbara Engelhardt@BeEngelhardt·
Casey was by far my closest collaborator and one of my closest friends from when we met at UChicago in 2008, right before he became a dad, to 2017, moments before I got tenure. We wrote many R01s and received two, one being GTEx, which changed our careers: nature.com/articles/natur…
UPenn GCB@UPennGCB

It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dr. Casey Brown passed away on Saturday, March 18. He was a friend, colleague, and mentor to so many in the GCB and CAMB communities, as well as the scientific community as a whole, and will be deeply missed.

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Jennifer Blanc
Jennifer Blanc@jblanc12·
Our approach is simple to implement and can provide better protection against confounding than the standard PCA approach when the test of interest is known ahead of time
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Jennifer Blanc
Jennifer Blanc@jblanc12·
We then show how to correct for this bias when testing for the association between PGSs and an ancestry gradient of interest in the prediction panel by leveraging the overlap in structure between the two panels
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Jennifer Blanc
Jennifer Blanc@jblanc12·
Motivated by recent evidence of residual confounding in PGS, we first use a simple model of genetic relatedness to show how confounding in the GWAS biases the distribution of PGS in the prediction panel in a way that depended on the overlap in population structure between panels
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Jeremy J. Berg@JeremyJBerg·
@jgschraiber Section 4.4 in the supplement of @yuvalsim's 2018 paper is relevant here: #sec016" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
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Joshua G. Schraiber
Joshua G. Schraiber@jgschraiber·
To be clear about what I mean, I think you can get an OU type limit from Fisher's Geometric Model in the limit of small mutation sizes, and the terms are almost but not quite the same as Lande's terms
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Joshua G. Schraiber
Joshua G. Schraiber@jgschraiber·
Does anyone know of any work exploring the connection between Lande 1976's OU model and Fisher's Geometric Model (in some appropriate limit)? There's obviously a connection (and I worked out some of it myself this week) but the details are fuzzy to me
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Sivan Yair
Sivan Yair@sivan_yair·
If anyone knows of any data science / pop gen positions in industry please get in touch! NYC area or remote. @Color laid off ~50% of the company. Genomics R&D work basically out. Frustrating news, but proud of my contributions and grateful for all I learned & great colleagues.
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D. Allan Drummond
D. Allan Drummond@dallandrummond·
@chembioBryan @UChicago I will be interested to see how there are any ideas at all, if there are (now) no new ideas. When, exactly, did they all get idea'd?
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bryan dickinson
bryan dickinson@chembioBryan·
I just overhear very on-brand @UChicago students debating this over lunch. This question touches on how we think about "novelty" and "innovation" when judging science. Let's have sci-twitter answer it: Are new ideas possible? Or, is everything derivative from the known?
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Jeremy J. Berg@JeremyJBerg·
@ewanbirney @mathiesoniain @antonioregalado So I believe there are non-zero direct effects, and am happy to believe that directs effect component of PGS from UK have non-zero correlation with EA in South Korea. But do we know that this is true for the “indirect effects”?
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Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney@ewanbirney·
@antonioregalado The second is that an estimated half of the genetic effect of the educational attainment of people come from the shared genetics with the parents - ie, the genes change parenting which change how the children perform at school.
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