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Fabio will be teaching GEN 8500 “Quantitative Genetics” in Spring 2026.

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12-16-2025. The paper on investigating the scenarios in which we can expect an increase in prediction accuracy by accounting for GxE is out in G3!

07-14-2025. The preprint on investigating the scenarios in which we can expect an increase in prediction accuracy by accounting for GxE is up on bioRxiv.

07-03-2025. The preprint on the importance of GxE on blood pressure across global populations led by Khushi and contributed to by Noah is up on medRxiv. Well done Khushi and Noah!

05-14-2025. The paper on using lifestyle information in polygenic modeling of blood pressure traits is out in GENETICS!

02-11-2025. The transcriptomic prediction paper is out in PLoS ONE! Congrats to Noah for his first first-author publication!

01-07-2025. The mr.mash-rss paper is out in PLoS Genetics!

08-21-2024. Welcome to Yuxuan Sun! Yuxuan is a first-year PhD student from the BDSI program co-advised by Dr. Trudy Mackay, with background in complex trait genetics.

06-09-2024. The preprint on using lifestyle information in polygenic modeling of blood pressure traits is up on bioRxiv! This was truly a collaborative effort between our lab and Dr. Tiezzi at the University of Florence.

06-03-2024. The preprint on comparing methods for transcriptomic prediction led by Noah is up on bioRxiv. Well done Noah!

05-10-2024. The preprint describing an extension of mr.mash that requires only summary statistics is up on bioRxiv!

10-16-2023. Welcome to Dr. Khushi Goda! Khushi is a postdoctoral fellow, who comes with experience in quantitative genetics applied to breeding. In the lab, she will be using her knowledge to investigate issues in human complex trait genetics.

08-15-2023. Congratulations to Noah who officially transitioned from the Master program to the PhD program! He will perform his dissertation research in the lab.

07-07-2023. The mr.mash paper is out in PLoS Genetics!

11-23-2022. The preprint describing our new empirical Bayes approach to multivariate multiple regression (mr.mash) is up on bioRxiv!

09-01-2022. Good news! Our lab has been awarded an NIH MIRA R35 grant. As a result, multiple positions at all levels are available. Get in touch if interested!

08-29-2022. Welcome to Noah Klimkowski! Noah is a Masters student from the Genetics program looking to learn more about statistical analysis and computations.

03-30-2022. We are looking for a postdoc, jointly advised by Trudy Mackay! Please apply here or send an email for an informal inquiry about the position.

01-12-2022. Welcome to Kelly Coyne! Kelly is a rotation student from the BDSI program with a strong background in genetics, looking to learn more about statistical analysis and computations.

08-30-2021. Welcome to Kuntal Maiti! Kuntal is a rotation student from the BDSI program with experience in data science and machine learning.

08-18-2021. We are very excited to welcome Chunming Liu, the first graduate student in the lab! Chunming will work on integrative approaches to understand the genetic architecture of complex traits.

03-22-2021. We are looking for a postdoc! Please apply here or send an email for an informal inquiry about the position.

10-26-2020. Our latest work on using multiple types of data to predict phenotypes is available at G3!

09-17-2020. We are looking for graduate students! Please send an email if interested.

08-17-2020. The Morgante Lab goes live!

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