Marson Lab

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News from Dr. Alex Marson's lab UCSF & Gladstone Institutes, focusing on advances in immunology, CRISPR & genomics.

GWAS has been an incredible discovery tool for human genetics: it regularly identifies *causal* links from 1000s of SNPs to any given trait. But mechanistic interpretation is usually difficult. Our latest work on causal models for this is out yesterday: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short🧵:

Causal modelling of gene effects from regulators to programs to traits - Nature

Approaches combining genetic association and Perturb-seq data that link genetic variants to functional programs to traits are described.

nature.com