Meet FinnGen at the ASHG 2025!

Results based on the FinnGen data are presented in almost 40 talks or posters during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) in Boston, October 14-18. We also have a booth so this is a great opportunity to come and meet us!
Logo of the ASHG 2025 conference and the text "I'm exhibiting" on a purple background.

FinnGen booth

You can find us from the New Exhibitor Pavilion, booth number 147!

 

Platform presentations

Wednesday Oct 15

Ivan Molotkov - Novel method for scalable non-additive GWAS reveals 781 new loci across 2,329 traits in FinnGen

Platform session 022 - From Interaction to Insight: Leveraging Gene-Environment and Multi-Omics Interactions Across Populations
10:45am-11:45am, Room 210AB/Level 2

 

Aoxing Liu - More is more: Shared phenotypes amongst sex chromosome trisomies hints dosage-sensitive effect of pseudoautosomal regions in genetic males and females

Platform session 027 - Advanced Technologies Uncover Dosage, Structure, and Phenotypic Complexity
1:30am - 2:30am, Room 258ABC/Level 2

 

Thursday Oct 16

Lea Urpa - Multiomic analysis of circadian and seasonal biomarkers

Platform session 043 - Statistical Genetics: Multi-Omics to Improve Gene Discovery
8:30am - 10:00am, Room 205ABC/Level 2
 

Marika Kaakinen - Age at onset GWAS of Parkinson's Disease in the FinnGen study suggests links with genetic risk for earlier age at onset and known prodromal symptoms for Parkinson's

Platform session 045 - Dissecting the Biology of Neurodegenerative Disorders
10:45am-11:45am, Ballroom West/Level 3

 

Friday Oct 17

Austin Argentieri - Proteomics and genomics of human aging

Platform session 064 - Decoding Human Aging: From Single-Cell Resolution to Population-Scale Insights
8:30am – 10:00am, Room 258ABC/Level 2

 

Felix Vaura - GWAS of creatinine response to RAAS inhibition in 32,907 Finns identifies regulatory variant near LINC01267

Lightning Talks session 080 - Decoding Human Aging: From Single-Cell Resolution to Population-Scale Insights
1:30am – 2:30am, Room 253ABC/Level 2


Posters

 

Poster session Wednesday Oct 15, 2:30pm-4:30pm


Minna Karjalainen - Identification of genetic factors associated with cervical cancer related phenotypes [Board No. 9068W]
Mary Pat Reeve - Biological Dissection of Thyroid Disease: Integrating Directional Effects and Tissue-Informed Clustering to Advance Precision Medicine [Board no. 9108W]


Emily Nason - Structural Characterization of Fine-Mapped and Predicted Deleterious Missense Variants [Board no. 9183W]

Mary Pat Reeve - Multiple Manhattan Plot: A Novel Zoomable Heatmap Visualization Tool for Multi-GWAS Comparison [Board no. ]

Essi Viippola – Genetic and phenotypic underpinnings of within-genetic sex variability in human plasma proteome across 51,292 individuals and four studies [Board no. 1010W]

Masahiro Kanai - Population-scale single-nucleus multiome uncovers molecular drivers of complex diseases in FinnGen [Board no. 5062W]

Sannimari Suhonen - Low polygenic risk scores as protective modifiers of disease risk in susceptibility gene variant carriers [Board no. 9267W]

Jimi Virkkala - Genome-wide cross-multi-trait analysis into shared genetic architecture of coronary artery disease and aortic aneurysms [Board no. 9087W]

Jaakko Leinonen - Two Genomes, Two Pathways: Evidence for Distinct Maternal and Fetal Genetic Contributions to Preeclampsia [Board no. 3060W]

Dmitrii Usoltsev - Integrative prediction of 58 age-related diseases and mortality using polygenic risk, blood biomarkers, and clinical history in nearly one million individuals from FinnGen and UK Biobank [Board no. 9199W]

 

Poster Session Thursday Oct 16

Felix Vaura - GWAS of creatinine response to RAAS inhibition in 32,907 Finns identifies regulatory variant near LINC01267 [Board No. 5085T]

Mervi Aavikko - Cross-cancer genome-wide association analysis of 121,495 cancer cases in FinnGen [Board no. 9069T]

Feiyi Wang-Beyond complexity: multi-source data integration enhances CVD risk prediction in T2D [Board no. 9094T]

Nikita Kolosov - Identifying novel therapeutic targets using multi-omics polygenic scores and mendelian randomization in 473,681 FinnGen participants [Board no. 2015T]

Chelsea Nguyen - Genetic loci associated with clinically significant acute knee injury in 944,189 cases and comparators [Board no. 9256T]

 

Poster Session Friday Oct 17

Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong - Meta-analysis of genetic variants affecting statin response [Board No. 9097F]

Frida Lona-Durazo - Sex-aware causal inference assessment of the immune system in complex neurodegenerative diseases [Board No. 9253F]

Julia Tomasi - Investigating the role of endolysosomal, autophagy, and mitochondrial pathway genetic burden in Parkinson's Disease [Board No. 9193F]

Anu Pasanen - Identification of genetic factors associated with spontaneous preterm deliveries with and without PPROM [Board No. 9223F]

Jaakko Tyrmi - Genome-wide association study of hirsutism highlights androgen-independent pathways [Board No. 9242F]

Yu Fu - Elucidating the X chromosome influence on the female bias in autoimmune diseases [Board No. 9243F]

Eero Ala-Mutka - Genetic Architecture and Risk Profile of Alcohol-Related Diseases [Board No. 9272F]

Sophie Parsa - Assessing generalizability and interpretability of proteomic disease prediction models from 64,907 individuals across three cohorts [Board No. 9155F]

Frida Dona Lurazo - Sex-aware causal inference assessment of the immune system in complex neurodegenerative diseases [Board No. 9253F]