Postdoc in statistical genetics @CGM_MGH @broadinstitute @harvardmed | @UniOfOxford PhD
Cambridge, USA
Joined October 2019
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What makes an abstract more likely to get a talk at the world’s largest annual genetics conference?
I analyzed all 15,327 ASHG abstracts 2022-26 to investigate which words, institutions, senior authors are more likely to get a talk.
Browse here: nikbaya.github.io/ashg_abstr…
🏥 Clinical terms are in vogue: From 2022 to 2025, phrases like “patients”, "likely pathogenic" and “diagnosis” were generally more common in posters. In 2026 they are starting to be more common in talks.
🏛️ Institutions: Among the 50 institutions with the most first-author abstracts, @Regeneron, @MIT, @MassGenBrigham had the highest talk rates (23–25%, vs 10% overall) across 2022-26.
Introducing the BRaVa results browser v1! 🎉
1.2M+ individuals across 10 global biobanks
44 heritable, disease-relevant traits (and counting)
419M gene- & variant-level association tests
➡️ nikbaya.github.io/brava_brow…
Future partners include: @CO90s, China Kadoorie, DanRaV, @decodegenetics, @QatarGenome, and Viking Genes. 🇨🇳🇩🇰🇮🇸🇶🇦🏴
BRaVa is led by @astheeggeggs, @konradjk, @ceclindgren and Benjamin Neale from @UniofOxford and @broadinstitute with co-authors from around the world. Thank you to all the biobank participants who make this research possible!
Some individuals defy their polygenic score.
One explanation for their deviation may be a burden of rare variants with large effect. ⏫
Our work (published this week in @AJHGNews!) explores this phenomenon.
#Genetics #RareDisease #PolygenicScores
And now YOU can explore this phenomenon too!
Check out our ✨INTERACTIVE✨ graphic abstract here: nikbaya.github.io/phenotype_…
➡️Read the full paper here! cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002…
Thanks to all co-authors, especially @ilknuursur @SamvidaV @satzel @philcmsms @MelinaClaussnit @astheeggeggs @ceclindgren. And thanks to @uk_biobank participants for making this research possible!
I'm also grateful to @wellcometrust @Clarendon_OU & the @PembrokeOxford Oxford-Bendich Scholarship for funding my DPhil at @HumanGeneticsOx @bdi_oxford @OxfordStats @UniofOxford
