Faculty at Emory Human Genetics, periodically cool dad, typical Boston sports fan (sorry), big believer in Dunning-Kruger effecthttps://bsky.app/profile/epsteinstatgen.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/epsteinstatgen.bsky.social/post/3mnknfoasok23For those interested in studying cell-cell communication, check out our latest methodological work in AJHG where we discuss more powerful and practical techniques for this task. Project was joint effort with @yjingj.bsky.social and led by our incredible trainee Dr. Qile Dai (now at Lilly) [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jun 2026 17:17 +0000at://did:plc:j2l7ws5faernbafcgvm66moo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnknfoasok23https://bsky.app/profile/epsteinstatgen.bsky.social/post/3lul62wfphc2oRIP, Prince of Darkness. Arguably in the Top 5 of most influential artists of my lifetime [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2025 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:j2l7ws5faernbafcgvm66moo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lul62wfphc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/epsteinstatgen.bsky.social/post/3lsblqgetec2yOur new AJHG paper is online. We develop a new TWAS tool that uses local-ancestry information to improve power of gene mapping in admixed samples. Lead author Taylor Head (now at MD Anderson) did a phenomenal job spearheading this work! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jun 2025 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:j2l7ws5faernbafcgvm66moo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsblqgetec2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/epsteinstatgen.bsky.social/post/3lcidpykoek2yFor those working in pathway and co-expression analysis, check out Andy’s recent preprint describing a more powerful and flexible framework for such studies! [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Dec 2024 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:j2l7ws5faernbafcgvm66moo/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcidpykoek2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/epsteinstatgen.bsky.social/post/3krgi5tbqov2fExcited to share our method LIT; a kernel approach to map genetic variants with interaction effects on multiple phenotypes in biobanks. R package implementing the method available on CRAN. Kudos to Andy Bass for leading this work! https://genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073-024-01329-001 May 2024 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:j2l7ws5faernbafcgvm66moo/app.bsky.feed.post/3krgi5tbqov2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/epsteinstatgen.bsky.social/post/3kap7w3zlnt22Pep and jazz band member Latin Club member who also took Ancient Greek Listened to Rush 24/7. I checked all the boxes [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2023 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:j2l7ws5faernbafcgvm66moo/app.bsky.feed.post/3kap7w3zlnt22https://bsky.app/profile/epsteinstatgen.bsky.social/post/3k7heorhf5z2aIntroducing some cool work by @ajbass.bsky.social in my lab for detecting genetic variants with interactive effects on phenotypes of interest in biobanks leveraging pleiotropy. Hope you find it interesting! [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Sep 2023 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:j2l7ws5faernbafcgvm66moo/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7heorhf5z2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/epsteinstatgen.bsky.social/post/3k75svpuk5d2cJust curious; what is the longest wait time anyone has experienced for a desk rejection?12 Sep 2023 00:06 +0000at://did:plc:j2l7ws5faernbafcgvm66moo/app.bsky.feed.post/3k75svpuk5d2chttps://bsky.app/profile/epsteinstatgen.bsky.social/post/3k5zxo7j2su23My latest cure for writer’s block28 Aug 2023 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:j2l7ws5faernbafcgvm66moo/app.bsky.feed.post/3k5zxo7j2su23https://bsky.app/profile/epsteinstatgen.bsky.social/post/3k4kz3ifop62m@danirabaiotti.bsky.social : could I please be added to the science feed? Thanks so much!10 Aug 2023 01:46 +0000at://did:plc:j2l7ws5faernbafcgvm66moo/app.bsky.feed.post/3k4kz3ifop62mhttps://bsky.app/profile/epsteinstatgen.bsky.social/post/3k3ufof5h4g2d [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Aug 2023 02:00 +0000at://did:plc:j2l7ws5faernbafcgvm66moo/app.bsky.feed.post/3k3ufof5h4g2d