FINNGEN RESEARCHERS PRESENT AT THE ASHG 2023
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 Rognvaldsson - Identification 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]