Following close monitoring of the ever-changing situation regarding the global spread of COVID-19 and having held discussions with key partners, we have taken the sad but necessary decision to cancel this year’s Edinburgh Science Festival, scheduled for 4–19 April (1/4)

Mendelian randomisation to link proteomic and DNA information provides stronger support for specific proteins in development of disease ed.ac.uk/mrc-human-gene… @MRC_IGMM Usher Institute Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine

Just claiming this as Andrew Bretherick!

Genetic mechanisms of critical illness in Covid-19 medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

We have found some robust new discoveries about Covid-19 in GenOMICC, which have potential therapeutic relevance. Readers outside of the genomics community will want to wait for peer review before acting on these findings. Preprint here for specialists: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

I may be late to the party to tweet this one, but maybe you, my 37 followers, will help make this the Number 1 paper of 2020! nature.com/articles/s4158…

ME Research UK is delighted to announce our first award for PhD-level research. This is for a project being conducted at The University of Edinburgh by PhD student Gemma Samms under the supervision of Professor Chris Ponting. Investing in the future. Learn more: meres.uk/geneticsPhD #MECFS

very much looking forward to speaking at this event with the incredibly knowledgeable duo of Emma Thomson & Megan MacLeod

Really nice to be talking in person after two years! ☺️🧬🎉

Many congratulations to Kenneth Baillie FMedSci - richly deserved recognition of a stellar researcher.

Congratulations to Profs Andrew McIntosh Kenneth Baillie Siddharthan Chandran, Neil henderson & Cathie Sudlow. Probably a coincidence that they all do their genomics with the Genetics Core 👏

#GettingGenomeMe Dr. Vera Kaiser MRC_HGU Institute of Genetics and Cancer talks about using computational approaches to integrate and extract information from datasets, the thrill of being the first to see your data in a new light, and catching earthworms late at night. genomics-at-edinburgh.ed.ac.uk/dr-vera-kaiser…

Our newest paper - just out a few minutes ago! Clark Russell Nazir Lone and I discuss the implications of different comorbid illnesses on the different phases of Covid-19. nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest paper in Nature today!🥳nature.com/articles/s4158…. This paper is our best yet, and really shows how genetics can point out the biological mechanisms of critical illness.

Delighted to share biggest paper yet from GenOMICC study. Our first report found 5 genes underlying critical covid, one of which pointed to an effective new treatment (baricitinib). Now we report 49 genes & multiple new drug options nature.com/articles/s4158…

We've published our initial findings from the questionnaire data from the first 17k participants. Read our summary blog:shorturl.at/wBOQ3 Or read the full article: shorturl.at/istzT You can still sign up to #DecodeME: rb.gy/0lxxx #PwME #MECFS

New uni profile page, exciting times! ed.ac.uk/profile/andrew…

Leveraging molecular-QTL co-association to predict novel disease-associated genetic loci using a graph convolutional neural network medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

IGC researchers Andrew Bretherick and Julian Ng-Kee-Kwong have used advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology, developed by the popular image-sharing platform Pinterest, to link genetic markers and disease: edin.ac/4jJy7Ix