Live from the American Society of Human Genetics (#ASHG22)

List of names and affiliations mentioned in the UK Biobank context: Mark McCarthy (Genentech), Slavé Petrovski (AstraZeneca), Chris Whelan (Johnson and Johnson), Erin Smith (Takeda Pharmaceuticals), Melissa Miller (Pfizer), Ben Sun (Biogen).

The ASHG announcement, honoring Sir Peter Donnelly, CEO of Genomics plc and Emeritus Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford with the William Allan Award. 

A list of the many abstracts and plenary presentations at ASHG 2022 that mention Olink can be found here (PDF). 

The Ben Sun et al. preprint mentioned is titled “Genetic regulation of the human plasma proteome in 54,306 UK Biobank participants” and is available on BioRxiv here.

An overview published in 2013 of the STUCTURE software (one of the “most widely used population analysis tools”) is available here.

To join the All of Us research program, visit https://www.joinallofus.org/ and information about the Francis Collins asking for an African Moonshot on GenomeWeb is here.

If you would like to contact Dale, Cindy or Sarantis feel free to email us at [e-mail].

In case you were wondering, Proteomics in Proximity refers to the principle underlying Olink Proteomics assay technology called the Proximity Extension Assay (PEA), and more information about the assay and how it works can be found here.