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A Brief History of the Progress in Our Understanding of Genetics and Lifestyle, Especially Diet, in the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease William B Grant. J Alzheimers Dis. 2024. Author William B Grant William B. Grant, PhD pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39121130/

The study provides compelling evidence of how racial discrimination is contributing to health disparities and further validates the importance of racism as a problem on a global public health level - @negarfani #alz everydayhealth.com/alzheimers-dis…

So excited for my @Penn_Memory & Institute on Aging STAR intern, Alex Ackerman, whose summer research project on behavioral symptom profiles in phenocopy FTD was accepted as a paper talk at the next INS meeting!

Genomics Community Day is this Friday! Li-San Wang will be speaking on a panel hosted by Amazon Web Services to discuss the "Future of Genomics Powered by the Cloud" Click to register! #genomics #researcher …mics-community-day-nyc.splashthat.com

We are always looking for postdocs to join our team at our many labs - if you are or know someone interested in a career in researching #dementia - please share! #postdocjobs #researchjobs

This is likely the most impactful paper I have ever supervised Now there is no doubt that blood biomarkers will revolutionize the diagnostic work-up of Alzheimer’s disease globally Big thanks to all co-authors, research staff and study participants who contributed to the study

Dressed as the spookiest thing I could think of this Halloween- a poor mCherry transfection efficiency, counterstained with DAPI of course

Our mentor Casey Brown, apart from being an extraordinary scientist, was a brilliant teacher who loved everything genetics. In his honor, some of the world's leading experts came together to create the 'Casey Brown Lecture Series' on human genetics 1/ shorturl.at/eCm7S

Want to learn about acculturation's impact on neuropsychological testing from a global perspective? 🧠 Join ECCroN's free webinar on March 21st at 4 PM CET/9 AM ET/7 AM PT with Melissa Lamar. INS CulturalSIG Cultural SIG DDisparitiesPIA forms.gle/XHBmF3M2up7iyr…

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The National Academies webinar on research priorities for preventing and treating Alzheimer’s and related dementias is on Jan 15 2PM ET! Join to hear key findings from the new report. Follow the link to see more details and register.

The Genome India Project offers us 10,000 genomes that represent the 4 broad linguistic groups, and regions across India incl tribal populations. They are available at the Indian Biological Data Centre at RCB, Faridabad for academics to analyze and unveil mysteries held in them.

"Our first batch of genetic data is available, and the quality is outstanding." Read an interview with Pei-Chuan Ho, PhD to discuss Asian Cohort for Alzheimer’s Disease - ACAD and its strides in including Asians and Asian Americans in #alzresearch penn-ngc.org/our-progress-a…

The multitude of genomic loci that are associated with Type 2 diabetes, nicely reviewed The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology by Philippe Froguel and colleagues thelancet.com/journals/landi…

New method for imaging-genetics multimodal learning: A genetically informed brain atlas for enhancing brain imaging genomics, by our excellent PhD student at UPenn Jingxuan Bao Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Penn FTD Center Co-Director David Irwin and Assistant Professor Allison Snyder presented at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. Dr. Irwin presented with an Introduction to FTD Spectrum Disorders and Dr. Snyder presented on Familial FTD.

Exploring RNA destabilization mechanisms in biomolecular condensates through atomistic simulations | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Find out why Bayesian Tissue Scores are over 100x more efficient in estimating functional annotation effects and context-specific variant fine-mapping compared to existing methods. See our new preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #genetics #research

Many who have heard my story, are profoundly impacted by the letter I received from an inmate being the first to acknowledge my mom’s dementia, before any physician. After 7 years, I was finally able to give the “Angie” in the letter, the proper thanks. m.youtube.com/watch?v=cAExIi…

Present your work. Make an impact. Join us in Boston. Abstract submissions for #ASHG25 close in 7 days—are you ready? 🗓️ Submit now: ashg.org/meetings/2025m… #ASHG #HumanGenetics