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. 12 hours ago

    The amazing story of GEDmatch: "How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations"

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  3. 17 hours ago

    The " report" on Elizabeth Warren's genetic ancestry:

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    17 hours ago

    As Sears files for bankruptcy, I'm reminded of its fascinating history. From 1908–1940, you could mail-order a **house** from the Sears catalog. It would arrive by train (& truck for the last mile). You'd put it together yourself.

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    Oct 14

    Can someone point me to a definition of what is the minimum information gain to state a human has been “sequenced”. Generating 90GB of sequence data is one definition, but neglects long-reads, and/or improvements in analytics e.g. , work w/ imputation

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    Oct 10

    Fauna Bio is featured in Business Insider today. Very excited about our incredible team and the future of hibernation therapeutics!

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    Oct 11

    Check our new paper. This was a super interesting (and important) project to work on. Thanks a lot for the incredible team and to my colleagues , , and Shai Carmi!

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    Oct 10

    The UK Biobank is a tremendous openly shared health resource including genetic and extensive physical & health data on ~500,000 volunteer participants. We are delighted to publish the main papers from , accompanied by this collection.

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    Oct 8

    Our latest now published in JACC Genomic Risk Prediction of Coronary Artery Disease in 480,000 Adults: Implications for Primary Prevention. A fantastic collaboration of the CardioMetabolic Working Group!

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  10. Oct 5

    "Genomic Analyses from Non-invasive Prenatal Testing Reveal Genetic Associations, Patterns of Viral Infections, and Chinese Population History"

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  11. Oct 5

    Creative idea from : contribute your DNA data to their database in exchange for equity

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    Oct 5

    According to Luna's SEC filing, here's how much all of your biological data is worth. $0.14 for 20 days of fit bit data $3.50 for a genome-wide microarray $3.50 for a whole microbiome $21 for a whole genome

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    Oct 2

    My paper with “Education can reduce health differences related to genetic risk of obesity” is out today in PNAS! We find that high school education can affect the relationship between genes and health later in life. 1/7

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  14. Sep 27

    "Common genetic variants contribute to risk of rare severe neurodevelopmental disorders"

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    Sep 24

    Having a rough day? In 1988 a Russian technician missed a single hyphen in his code, transmitted it without checking, and thus instantly and irreversibly bricked a 6,200 kg spacecraft en route to Mars. So. You’re doing OK.

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    Sep 21

    wow, yet another huge break in a cold case made possible by DNA and GEDMatch via

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    Sep 21

    Very important from : * BRCA1/2 mutations in 1:190 of population * ~30% with breast/ovarian CA by middle age * Odds Ratio: 6 for breast; 18 for ovarian * Current testing guidelines would miss 50%

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  18. Sep 21

    Flashback to the unintentionally-revealing blog post that started it all:

    Hi. What a day. UPDATED: Cornell Just Found Brian Wansink Guilty Of Scientific Misconduct And He Has Resigned
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    Sep 19

    Our guest post on the blog has been published! Check it out 👇

    . on scaling high-throughput genomics workflows on AWS.
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    Sep 15

    Selection is scary. Reading about Robertson's limit (total selection = 2 * population size * per-generation gain = big number): of Breeding fruit flies can increase flying speed by 85x.

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    Sep 16

    Sperm donation by Facebook. "Anthony" is blissfully unaware that despite his use of a pseudonym his donor children will easily be able to identify him in the future through consumer genetic testing.

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