Joe Pickrell

@joe_pickrell

Human geneticist. CEO .

New York, NY
gencove.com
Joined June 2011
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    May 22

    Blog post: A platform for replacing genotyping arrays with sequencing

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  2. 4 hours ago

    "Nationwide population genetic screening improves outcomes of newborn screening for hearing loss in China"

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  3. Dec 19

    Fun blog post by on GWASs of ice cream flavor preferences and the key role of olfactory receptors

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    Dec 5

    I am formally looking for a few postdocs who would like to work with me on developing advanced computational algorithms. Please see the job listing for details.

    We're hiring! The Heng Li lab at / invites applications for a postdoctoral research fellow in bioinformatics and computational biology.
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  5. Dec 13

    "Stone Age 'chewing gum' yields 5,700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome"

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  6. Dec 7

    "Among participants in the Framingham Heart Study, the incidence of dementia has declined over the course of three decades. The factors contributing to this decline have not been completely identified."

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    Dec 5

    i am not taking questions at this time

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    Dec 5

    "She agreed to undergo [IVF] without any awareness that the treatment was both experimental and unprecedented. She decided to go ahead with the implant without any idea that the risks and benefits of the procedure were unknown to her and to her baby."

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    Dec 3

    🔥New preprint! We hijacked secretion systems of brain-infiltrating parasites so they secrete therapeutic proteins inside neurons. We propose this could be used in the future to deliver drugs through the BBB as the parasite is mostly asymptomatic in immunocompetent individuals

    Engineering Brain Parasites for Intracellular Delivery of Therapeutic Proteins
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    Nov 28

    Not the biggest news from the CRISPR conference, but a weird testament to the growth of

    Was going to submit to bioarxiv but people told him to goto peer review
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  11. Nov 27

    Great to see data in a nice paper from and

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    Nov 26

    Excited to talk about the technology stack for processing low-pass sequencing data at the Cloud Computing for Biotech symposium

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    Nov 25

    Woman who inherited fatal illness to sue doctors in groundbreaking case

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    Nov 20

    How do people completing a questionnaire and sharing email details differ from those that don’t?

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    Nov 16

    “I tried to show for a range of outcomes that the genetic models were overstating the impact of genetics because of their crazy assumptions.” He sighs. “But I ended up showing that they’re right.”

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    Nov 13

    AncestryDNA launches some trait reports - 18 reports for $10 but only for US customers.

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  17. Nov 3

    Interesting to see 23andMe and Ancestry as the main examples in this piece discussing 'short read' and 'long read' sequencing technologies (the consumer tests use neither of these)

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    Nov 1

    To commemorate $1.2B acquisition of , link below to 2003 paper from Watt Webb lab that launched it. Worth rereading to appreciate how incredibly far grad students/founders Jonas Korlach (still CSO) and Stephen Turner (still CTO) were able to take it

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  19. Oct 31

    An association between voting behavior and SLC39A8, which is the same gene associated with risk of Crohn's, schizophrenia, and many other traits here: very difficult result to interpret

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  20. Oct 31

    "Genetic Consequences of Social Stratification in Great Britain"

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    Oct 28

    A great long-read article by on the work of who uses genetic genealogy to identify suspects in cold cases

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