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Harvard T.H Chan's Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics (PGSG). We pioneer groundbreaking statistical research in human genetics.
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In times of social distancing, we lean on our pets for love and support. To celebrate National Pet Day, the Epi Department wanted to showcase some of our staff, student, and faculty's furry friends who are helping them at home. #nationalpetday Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health


We're happy to share groundbreaking work from PGSG's own Liming Liang


Today, Harvard Chan Dean Michelle Williams encourages the Harvard Chan community to forego business as usual and take time for critical self-reflection, reading, and reaching out to one another as part of #ShutDownAcademia and #ShutDownSTEM. bit.ly/3hiDkrQ



Research recently published by PGSG scientists including Zhaozhong Zhu & Liming Liang identified an increased risk of developing severe COVID-19 among those in a UK Biobank cohort with non-allergic asthma. Read more in HSPH release: hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/…

Newly published by PGSG's Zhaozhong Zhu ↓

Congratulations to Zhaozhong Zhaozhong Zhu!!

Our latest preprint on improving complex trait signal of deep learning models on integrating with SNP-to-gene strategies and gene sets Jesse Engreitz @samsungilkim @StevenGazi #josephnasser #alkesprice biorxiv.org/content/10.110…




We’re happy to release PolyPred, our new method for trans-ethnic PRS. First, this is an awesome work with co-1st authors Masahiro Kanai Huwenbo Shi (時胡文博), A. Price & collab. Alicia Martin Wouter Peyrot Amit V. Khera @StevenGazi YukinoriOkada H. Finucane Thread👇 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Stratifying trans-ethnic genetic correlations reveals that loci with population-specific disease effect sizes are likely impacted by selection Huwenbo Shi (時胡文博) @StevenGazi Masahiro Kanai @samsungilkim Yang Luo Tiffany Amariuta YukinoriOkada Soumya Raychaudhuri সৌম্য রায়চৌধুরী Harvard PGSG nature.com/articles/s4146…


Yesterday marked the conclusion of our summer staff social mini-series. It was wonderful catching up with one another to kick off our new academic year. 👉 More events to come this fall! Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health




