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With many collaborators from TOPMed, the Raffield lab was pleased to contribute to recent whole genome sequencing based publications for red blood cell, white blood cell, and platelet related traits. These publications identified novel single variant signals for these heritable hematological measures, despite the 10x smaller sample size versus existing...

Jayna Nicholas was appointed to the Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) T32 Training Grant. Her proposal focused on improved understanding of discordant pQTLs across proteomics platforms in diverse cohort studies from TOPMed. Congratulations, Jayna!

Sarthi Patil was awarded the Biostatistics Undergraduate Summer Internships (BUSI) Program End-of-Summer Research Symposium Best Poster Presentation Award for her poster entitled TWAS Training for Jackson Heart Study Cohort. Sarthi is working to train transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) models using newly generated RNA-seq data from the Jackson Heart Study. Congratulations,...

Jayna Nicholas presented the poster “Fibrinogen Associated Plasma Metabolites and Implications for Cardiovascular Disease Risk“ at the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) meeting in Philadelphia, PA April 28, 2022. We look forward to sharing a manuscript describing these findings soon.