Meet FinnGen at the ASHG 2026!

Results based on the FinnGen data are presented in almost 30 talks or posters during the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) in Montreal, October 20-24. We also have a booth so this is a great opportunity to come and meet us!
Promotional graphic for Finngen exhibiting at the ASHG Annual Meeting 2026 in Montréal, October 20–24, 2026. The graphic features the Finngen logo and the ASHG Annual Meeting exhibitor badge against a blue-to-purple gradient background

FinnGen booth

You can find us from the New Exhibitor Pavilion, booth number 1617!

Platform presentations

Wednesday Oct 21

Jonathan Davitte - Contextualizing and integrating All of Us with other global biobank data in drug discovery
Session: The All of Us Research Program At 10 Years: 500,000+ Genomes Advancing Precision, Room 517BC/Level 5 at 9:05 - 9:20 am

Théo Schneider - Accurate maternal and paternal haplotype inference reveals new parent-of-origin effects in the Finnish population
Session: Mapping Genetic Relatedness at Biobank Scale: Uncovering Hidden Signal from Rare Variants to Parent-of-Origin Effects, Room 710B/Level 7 at 11:15 am – 11:30 pm

Iris Heid - Longitudinal GWAS reveals the genetic architecture of kidney function across the life course in the population and disease
Session: The REnAL Deal: Genomic Insights into Kidney Disease, Room 516BC/Level 5 at 11:15 - 11:30 am

Masahiro Kanai - Population-scale immune multiome atlas of 10 million PBMCs reveals regulatory disease mechanisms in FinnGen
Session: Genetic Variation: From Catalogs to Consequences, Room 517A/Level 5 at 2:07-2:10 pm

Ivan Molotkov - Polygenic risk stratification identifies hypothyroid patients with skin cancer risk comparable to family history and UV-related risk
Session: Advancing Precision Oncology with AI, Functional Genomics, and Multi-Omics: From Risk Prediction to Tumor Evolution and Therapeutic Discovery, Room 510/Level 5 at 1:59 am – 2:02 pm

Posters

Wednesday Oct 21:

Juha Karjalainen - An auditable AI analyst for human genetics: 5.5 million fine-mapped credible sets, 935 real analyses, and a 112-protein hypothesis that survives its own negative control [Board No. 8113W]

Veikko Vuokila - A composite polygenic risk score of four prominent psychiatric disorders outperforms individual scores for shared comorbidity prediction in a large undiagnosed cohort [Board No. 8194W]

Linda Ottensmann - Clustering GWAS effect sizes across IBD surgical subtypes identifies variants influencing risk and [Board No. 8219W]

Isabel Kerrebijn - The genetic architecture of fibromyalgia across 2.5 million individuals [Board No. 8329W]

Dmitrii Usoltsev - Widespread heterogeneity in polygenic risk score effects across clinical histories in about 1 million individuals from UK Biobank and FinnGen [Board No. 8343W]

 

Thursday Oct 22:

Samuel Jones - Sex differences in the genetic architecture of common diseases are rare and often driven by phenotypic artefacts [Board No. 6070T]

Minna Karjalainen - Metabolic profiling of genetic variants associated with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease [Board No. 8282T]

A K Rafeul Hasan - Genetic architecture of 5-alpha reductase inhibitor users: a GWAS of the Finnish population [Presentation No. 8392T]

Noora Metsäranta - Genome-wide association study identifies 13 loci for ovarian mature teratoma and implicates meiotic cell cycle regulators [Presentation No. 8396T]

Michael Chao - Multi-omics evidence for type 2 diabetes in vascular dementia risk: implications for GLP-1 receptor agonists in neuroprotection [Board No. 8430T]

Ilona Uski - Recessive Mapping in FinnGen Identifies a Novel Locus nearby NLRP13 for Unexplained Female Infertility [Board No. 8439T]

 

Friday Oct 23:

Ivan Molotkov - Polygenic risk stratification identifies hypothyroid patients with skin cancer risk comparable to family history and UV-related risk factors [Board No. 1050F]

Masahiro Kanai - Population-scale immune multiome atlas of 10 million PBMCs reveals regulatory disease mechanisms in FinnGen [Board No. 6065F]

Sarah Snyder - BMI-restricted ascertainment inflates genetic associations between anorexia nervosa and body mass index [Board No. 8210F]

Jaakko Tyrmi - Genetic determinants of inpatient healthcare utilization [Board No. 8250F]

Zhiyu Yang - Large-Scale GWAS of Lab Value Trajectories Reveals Genetic Effects Distinct from Mean Levels [Board No. 8425F]

Hanna Ollila - Multiomic analysis of circadian and seasonal biomarkers [Board No. 8434F]