Back to uni week in Dundee and I think the prime minister is holding s work event in the flat across the road

Me, patronising PI, trying to help someone prepare for her PhD defence: "do you think your mum will understand this from the description you're giving" Stressed PhD student: "no" Me being smug: "you get my point?" "She doesn't speak English Andrew"

So close to getting out with my dignity

Really excited to read this study with 5 million participants. And that's just the authors!

Along with the FinnGen flagship paper, an amazing team effort and demonstration of the power of Finnish biobank data, I’m excited to present two papers from my team using the same resource also out today 1/n

Excited to get this preprint out there showcasing an collaboration pooling data + expertise across 🇮🇳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿@Theodysse Andrew Brown Dr.V.Mohan Sarah Finer Rohini Mathur UoD Medicine Adem yesuf Sundararajan Srinivasan Colin Palmer The Scottish Health Research Register & Biobank medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

For starters, David Davtian has been looking at twas for type 2 diabetes. His conclusion, go tight on the genetics and disease and you can be sloppy on the tissue cell type, may not be universally accepted at this conference.

Taking a breather from his PhD, @Theodysse has looked at gene prioritisation methods with pharma friends. Looking at a whole range of diseases, he finds gene properties are more replicable than genetic info, find OMIM/exome genes + he also knows a lot about where the biases are!

Just saw someone get reversed Say Anythinged. Car drives up, window in flat opens and romantic music starts playing. "Youse are an embarrassment" girl yells up. "I dinnae care!" comes the response.

Thoughts and prayers with single cell biologists with a UMAP plot that's ready to submit

Really happy for Aline Réal to be getting this out. Major implication for me is I've always assumed gwas hits will be explained by expression as it has to mediate then. But here Aline Réal shows these expression effects can take many forms, not all picked up by common tech

Very proud of David having the energy to get this out with ASHG deadlines looming. Congrats!