FINNGEN RESEARCHERS PRESENT AT THE ASHG 2023

Results based on the FinnGen data are presented in almost 40 talks or posters during the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) in Washington DC, November 1-5. Come and meet our researchers!
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A list of selected FinnGen talks and posters

 

Thursday Nov 2

FinnGen ASHG Breakfast Meeting (for the consortium partners, registration required)

7:00am - 8:30am

Conv Ctr/Room 209ABC/Level 2

 

Platform - Enemy within: Genetics of human autoimmune disorders

2:15pm-2:30pm

Conv Ctr/Ballroom B/Level 3

Presenter 005: Feiyi Wang - Impact of parental autoimmune diseases on type 1 diabetes in offspring can be partially explained by genetic variants from HLA and non-HLA regions: a nationwide registry and biobank study

 

Poster session 3:00pm-5:00pm

Molecular Effects of Genetic Variation Poster Session I

Presenter 089: Masahiro Kanai - The crossroads of fine-mapping, single-cell multiome and immunophenotyping to inform on the molecular drivers of diseases in FinnGen [Board No. PB1267]

 

Complex Traits and Polygenic Disorders Poster Session I

Presenter 114: Mary Reeve - Loss-of CFHR5 conveys protection from Age-related macular degeneration [Board No. PB1645]

Presenter 175: Hye In Kim - Trans-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis of peripheral artery disease uncover 89 loci and post-GWAS analyses map the signals to candidate effector genes and disease mechanisms. [Board No. PB1831]

 

Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Poster Session I

Presenter 068: Solvi RognvaldssonIdentification of genetic effects on seasonal variation in disease risk based on temporal patterns from 1,952 diseases in over 7 million individuals. [Board no. PB4199]

 

Friday Nov 3

Platform - Unraveling the genetic determinants of female infertility 

2:00pm-2:15pm

Conv Ctr/Room 145A/Level 1

Presenter 004: Sanni Ruotsalainen - Mapping loci associated with impaired female reproduction

 

Platform - Unraveling the genetic determinants of female infertility 

2:15pm-2:30pm

Conv Ctr/Room 145A/Level 1

Presenter 005: Samvida Venkatesh - The distinct genetic determinants of infertility and reproductive hormones

 

Platform - More data, same problems: Bias in large-scale studies

2:30pm-2:45pm

Conv Ctr/Ballroom A/Level 3

Presenter 006: Kristi Läll - Estimating relative effective dilution for 34 diseases in the Intervene consortium

 

Poster session 3:00pm-5:00pm

Complex Traits and Polygenic Disorders Poster Session II

Presenter 134: Jaakko Leinonen - Disentangling the link between maternal influences on birth weight and disease risk in 36,211 genotyped mother-child pairs [Board No. PB1433]

Presenter 182: Samuel Lessard - Expression QTL-based phenome-wide association study identifies a link between IL6ST and polymyalgia rheumatica [Board No. PB1481]

Presenter 296: Stavroula Kanoni - Improving Polygenic Scores accuracy in non-European populations for lifetime disease risk estimation [Board No. PB1595]

Presenter 350: Ayellet Segre - Matrix factorization analysis of cross-trait associations identifies platelet crit as a new causal or pleiotropic effect for primary open angle glaucoma [Board No. PB1649]

 

Omics Technologies Poster Session II

Presenter 152: Kristin Tsuo - Partitioning the plasma proteome into genetically mediated causal signals and environmental sensors of complex disease risk [Board No. PB3449]

 

Saturday Nov 4

Poster session 2:15pm-4:15pm

Complex Traits and Polygenic Disorders Poster Session III

Presenter056: Linda Ottensmann - Examining the link between 179 lipid species and 8 diseases [Board No. PB1467]

Presenter006: Aeron Small - A Multi-Ancestry Meta-Analysis of GWAS for Mitral Valve Prolapse Identifies 34 Novel Genomic Regions [Board no. PB1317]

Presenter066: Zhaohui Du - ­­­Genetic analyses of inflammatory polyneuropathy and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy identified candidate genes [Board no. PB1497]

 

Genetic, Genomic, and Epigenomic Resources and Databases Poster Session III

Presenter060: Nikita Kolosov - FinnGen PGS Browser: a platform for polygenic risk score analyses and interpretation from a cohort of 400,000 Finns. [Board No. PB4491]

 

Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Poster Session III

Presenter 232: Elina Sillanpää - Is inherited muscle strength a proxy for intrinsic capacity to resist age related pathologies and mortality? [Board No. PB4234]

Presenter 220: Jakob German - Integrating genetic data in Trial Emulation: Exploring the potential of Polygenic Risk Scores. [Board No. PB4222]