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BioHUG Biobank: 10,000 DNA samples and counting! Launched in February 2025, BioHUG (UNIGE Faculty of Medicine & HUG) aims to collect 20,000 DNA samples by 2027 — a milestone that will place it among ...

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Faites-vous partie des plus de 150 000 Genevois qui ont signé un consentement général autorisant les chercheurs à réutiliser vos données en toute sécurité à des fins de recherche médicale ? www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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🧬 La biobanque BioHUG : déjà 10 000 échantillons d'ADN Créée en février 2025, BioHUG (Faculté de médecine UNIGE & HUG) vise à inclure 20 000 échantillons d'ADN d'ici à 2027 — seuil qui la placera par...

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Messi, Haaland and Mbappé. 3 legends, 7 goals. No pressure on Christiano tonight.

Claude is helping me learn French . French native speakers would you get the grammar differences between these 2 phrases ?: "Hier matin, Sophie s'est coupée profondément en épluchant des légumes. Avant le déjeuner, ma fille s'est lavé soigneusement les mains.

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Catch up on Switzerland's mature Trusted Research Environment for working with sensitive data , including from multiple hospitals across the country. thanks to the hard work of Owen Appleton Sabine Österle , Shubham Kapoor & many others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsnE...

Learn about working securely with data from 10% of the Swiss population : 📚 The SPHN Federated Clinical Routine Dataset: 🗣 Referenten: Dr. Sabine Österle 📅 Wann: Dienstag, 10. März 2026, um 16:45 Uhr 📍 Wo: Online via Zoom: bit.ly/4e9p3Ka #SPHN

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Fantastic opportunity en Suisse: www.linkedin.com/posts/swiss-...

#hiring #healthdata #sphn #datasharing #fair #personalizedmedicine #collaboration #swisshds #sparql #snomedct #loinc #semantics #ehds | Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN)

📢 We’re hiring: Senior Software Developer (permanent, 80–100%) 📍 Basel (hybrid work possible) To strengthen its semantic layer, Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) is seeking a Senior Software...

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Amazing. UK leading the way . Finland in silver medal position ? and I predict Switzerland could join them on the podium at some point over the next year or two

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 5mo ago

OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

yep. seems like we need to try, but also that most components of disease are on a continuous scale. Put people into groups based on those scales and they will look different, but are the separations real ? doesn't rule out the importance of stratification to get more bang for intervention buck

Frank Harrell@f2harrell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#Statistics thought of the day: If you think you can find new disease subtypes by empirically clustering patients, think again: www.fharrell.com/post/cluster... #StatsSky

Congratulations @laferrat.bsky.social & team.

Lauric Ferrat@laferrat.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our new microsimulation model to optimise T1D screening by balancing cost, pragmatism, and reduced diabetic ketoacidosis is out. #T1D #T1Dscreening doi.org/10.1007/s402...

slightly random reminder of this paper from 2019 from Exeter colleagues that shows how heterogeneity of disease, in this case diabetes, is best dealt with by using continuous clinical variables not cluster assignment: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Disease progression and treatment response in data-driven subgroups of type 2 diabetes compared with models based on simple clinical features: an analysis using clinical trial data

Research using data-driven cluster analysis has proposed five subgroups of diabetes with differences in diabetes progression and risk of complications…

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excellent opportunity with SPHN , making health data from > 10% of the Swiss population safely reusable for research apply.refline.ch/499599/0353/...

🧬 New preprint alert! After years of collaborative work across 52 datasets we are presenting eQTLGen phase 2: a genome-wide eQTL meta-analysis covering 43,301 blood samples: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/8)

Using genetics to understand multi morbidity, including neat R package to "subtract" effects of critical risk factors such as obesity : www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Genetics identifies obesity as a shared risk factor for co-occurring multiple long-term conditions - Communications Medicine

Mounier et al., analyse whether obesity, measured by body mass index (BMI) affects the shared genetic risk between 71 long-term health conditions including diabetes, heart disease and arthritis. Healt...

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great work & just as interesting is use of this approach to estimate the shared genetics between pairs of conditions whilst "subtracting" the effects of obesity. Interesting that T2D-Osteoarthritis genetic link estimated as 100% about obesity, other pairs clearly have strong non obesity components

Luke Pilling@lcpilling.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Massive GEMINI team effort (ex.ac.uk/gemini) Can't name them all. Key co-authors: Ninon Mounier, Beth Voller, @janemasoli.bsky.social, João Delgado, Frank Dudbridge, @timfrayling.bsky.social, Jack Bowden Data/code: github.com/GEMINI-multi... Press release: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

The Exeter team seem to be the Alex Honnold of human genetics. Most sane people on seeing the challenge of meta analysing >1billion variants & 10,000s aggregates across ~100% of the genome would opt for the safety rope of the exome. Not these guys.

Harry Wright@hiwwright.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to share my first preprint on federated conditional analysis of rare single variant and aggregate association tests across six genetically-inferred ancestry groups in All of Us and UK Biobank doi.org/10.64898/202...

ten percent of the Swiss population: Medical meta data update: www.linkedin.com/posts/swiss-...

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🔓📊 Clinical data from 800,000 patients unlocked: Empowering health research with a large-scale, FAIR dataset from Switzerland 🇨🇭 Swiss Personalized Health Network is proud to have released the metad...

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Learning more about the brilliance of the medical record data at the University Hospital Geneva. This plot, from pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34643542/ shows how medical informatics researchers have introduced , & clinicians passively adopted, a set list of phrases, reducing new free text.

Interesting development in ”non-personalised Medicine” from UK: the government will reduce the current lower threshold at which Soft drink industry levy applies from 5g of total sugars per 100ml to 4.5g & will remove the current exemption for milk-based drinks with added sugar

Rarely in the entire history of science, has QC been a topic of such passion, importance and impact. If only the French and Americans had adopted such rigor when they messed up the design of that multi billion $ telescope because one was using the metric system, the other the imperial system.

Kartik Chundru@chundru.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New paper on everyone’s favourite topic, QC! We show why you should do genotype-level QC on your WGS data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Very real quotes about this paper - “The most exciting, mind-blowing paper of the year!” “On a par with Fisher 1918” “I read it every night. Just so beautiful”

Now a nice series of papers using genetics to "uncouple" excess adiposity from its adverse metabolic effects. Here for metabolic traits www.nature.com/articles/s42..., here including non metabolic traits elifesciences.org/articles/72452 & here using partitioned PRS www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When more is not worse: Genetic subtypes of obesity challenge conventional risk paradigms

Emerging evidence challenges the view of obesity as a uniform metabolic risk. Spotlighting the recent Nature Medicine study by Chami et al. this piece discusses how “uncoupling” adiposity from its car...

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Nearly two years in for our new common disease genetics and genomics team at the University of Geneva. Already lots to be proud of. Here is Lauric talking about his award from the local Diabetes charity. fr.linkedin.com/posts/fondat...

Découvrez l'un de nos trois chercheurs, Lauric Ferrat de l'UNIGE, qui explique son projet primé par notre Prix 2025 sur l'optimisation et la rentabilitédu dépistage du diabète de type 1 en...

Découvrez l'un de nos trois chercheurs, Lauric Ferrat de l'UNIGE, qui explique son projet primé par notre Prix 2025 sur l'optimisation et la rentabilitédu dépistage du diabète de type 1 en Suisse.

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I’m learning more and more about the extremely impressive Swiss personalised Health Network and the trusted research environment infrastructure that enables researchers to safely access & Analyse data from multiple hospitals in Switzerland www.sib.swiss/news/sphn-is...

SPHN is a trusted partner between hospitals and private companies

A new collaboration framework allows private partners to transform sensitive Swiss health data into actionable insights while preserving patient privacy. The first pilot project examines risk factors ...

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Congratulations to our Liza Darrous for winning the women in data science award last week:  tinyurl.com/lizaprize

Still buzzing from an incredible day at WiDS Belgium 2025 👩‍💻 ✨ ! Usually WiDS leaves me inspired by all the amazing women sharing their work on stage. This year, I had the chance to be on stage… | L...

Still buzzing from an incredible day at WiDS Belgium 2025 👩‍💻 ✨ ! Usually WiDS leaves me inspired by all the amazing women sharing their work on stage. This year, I had the chance to be on stage myse...

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thanks to @laraedw001.bsky.social for highlighting this micro.green-park.co.uk/hdrs/. I suggest whoever gets this position, pops over to Switzerland as the SPHN have achieved great things with consented data from 10% of the population available for study a few months after application & in a TRE

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Oh dear. Sad and presumably another lead statistician to be fired ? www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...

US economy adds fewer jobs than expected in August, confirming slowdown

After the previous month's release, Trump fired then-Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer.

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Amazing study. A simple but important question affecting up to 50% of the population yet previously understudied . And an exemplar in the power of multi-modal data linkage. www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/news/...

2025: Periods and GCSE results | Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children | University of Bristol

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Deadline 31/08. Join a friendly team in the heart of Europe. Build your research career in human genetics & genomics using data from millions of individuals to address important causes and consequences of disease. Apply here lnkd.in/dyZcgc-g More information on the team here: lnkd.in/dzZ2aU4Z

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