Daniel MacArthur

@dgmacarthur

Human genomics, rare disease, and open data. Co-director of Medical and Population Genetics at .

Boston, USA
Geregistreerd in oktober 2008

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    17 okt.

    KK: The new data set is live, with an awesome new browser! Thanks to the tireless work of our engineering team, Nick Watts and , working right up to about 3 minutes before this talk (DM: can confirm.).

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    Australia cuts research funding for universities. Funding for research and development is at its lowest point in 40 years—even as Australia forecasts a budget surplus of AU$4.1 billion in 2019-2020

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    At 23andMe, taking calls from people who just got a life-changing surprise is so stressful that customer service reps are encouraged to go for a walk after an intense call, or crack open a bottle of wine. Great story via

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    If you’re writing about data-sharing and your article is behind a paywall with no preprint on biorxiv, it’s perhaps time to revisit your definitions of both “data” and “sharing” 🧐

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    18 dec.

    1. What is the probability that the mutations carried by CRIPR twins Lulu and Nana are already present in the human population?

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    15 dec.
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    And without further ado, here's "A simple new approach to variable selection in regression, with application to genetic fine mapping" by

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    24 uur geleden

    How you make 2,300 attendees at the Broad Retreat feel like they belong

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    17 dec.

    We interviewed Mark Daly , newly appointed Director of for our website, as part of our 'Welcome to' series. Here, Prof. Daly discusses his into human , and why he chose to swap the USA for Finland:

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    18 dec.

    If you're not a fan of extreme p-values in you can stop reading right here. But since I've been following the Manhattan plots generated by from the group I thought I'd "skip to the end" and look up most extreme p-value for any trait/any SNP 👇

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    16 dec.

    WRITING A PAPER IN WORD: FONT TIPS Contrary to widely held belief (among LaTeX fands), it is easy to write a nice-looking paper in Word. You just have to do three things: (1) use styles; (2) avoid hideous fonts; (3) unleash the fonts’ potential. 2\

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    18 dec.

    We are looking for two 's to join our team at in Helsinki! We offer a great opportunity to work in the forefront of the new wave of big data application for genome health. Read more and apply by 31 Jan!

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    18 dec.

    `the GDPR has had the unintended (but wholly predictable) consequence of consolidating market power behind the mega firms that privacy advocates hoped to take down. There is a reason that the GDPR earned its informal nickname of the "Google Data Protection Regulation"`

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  13. 17 dec.

    Where to go for rare disease diagnoses after exome sequencing fails? Excellent review of the options by and :

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    17 dec.

    Check out the omission of proper negative controls.

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    16 dec.

    Your regular friendly reminder that vaccines are completely, utterly, totally, and entirely unrelated to the development of autism (N = 1.3 million)

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    16 dec.

    A Powerful Lesson That Patients Deserve Full Control Of Their Genetic Data: 🧬A lab can refuse to share data to protect their own market position 🧬At the expense of scientific progress, and the very patients who paid them to conduct genetic testing 👉

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    16 dec.

    folks, we need to demand high standards in the current gold rush of methods devel. It's not OK for methods to be published w/ vaporware implementations. We need open src code written in open src languages w/ documentation, test data, unit tests, pkg'd, installable.

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    16 dec.

    As a Pfizer scientist I work alongside talented immigrants from all over the world. - why are you advertising on Tucker Carlson? Do you support his views on immigrants? What message are you sending to our colleagues and customers?

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    16 dec.

    New: "p-Hacking & False Discovery in A/B Testing" Setup: 2,101 RCTs in which businesses track effects over time. "73% of experimenters stop experiment[s] when a[n] effect reaches 90% confidence...75% of the effects are truly null."

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    14 dec.

    Reference genome falls down again; Southern blots are sometimes a geneticists best friend (especially in repeat regions). Lessons to live by, that I have encountered now in three separate phases of my career, summed up in a beautiful paper by and colleagues!

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    15 dec.

    UCLA asked faculty to consider declining to review for Elsevier journals

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