Cancer epidemiologist, statistical geneticist, biostatistician. National Cancer Institute, Harvard. Views my own.https://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.social/post/3mkvbspulhs2kKodama: genotype compression and matrix multiplication leveraging genetic relatedness https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.29.721594v102 May 2026 18:34 +0000at://did:plc:yorbp2mdz6msw4vit5cv6wev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvbspulhs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.social/post/3mkdnav5sz22vThis👇 A key to any productive collaboration between computer scientists and epidemiologists (or clinicians or biologists or…) is to learn each others’ languages. Sometimes we use different words for the same concepts, sometimes we use the same words but mean very different things. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Apr 2026 18:10 +0000at://did:plc:yorbp2mdz6msw4vit5cv6wev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdnav5sz22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.social/post/3mk4pdhtf5c2zOoh sorry to miss in person but glad it will be recorded. Having embarrassed myself recently blathering on about how my one undergrad “Theater of Bertolt Brecht” class formed my perspective on AI (thanks umich rc!), it will be nice to hear from folks who’ve actually studied and thought about this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2026 23:59 +0000at://did:plc:yorbp2mdz6msw4vit5cv6wev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4pdhtf5c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.social/post/3mjvf5uu5i22hCongrats and kudos to @xueyaowu.bsky.social for leading this collab with Joy Jiang, Graham Colditz, Rulla Tamimi & team—first of 🤞many projects to peek into the black box of AI mammogram risk models and see if they are telling us something about breast cancer epidemiology. 1/2 [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Apr 2026 02:08 +0000at://did:plc:yorbp2mdz6msw4vit5cv6wev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvf5uu5i22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.social/post/3mjhlpcx4yc2jNo. No I am not. But I’m gonna steal that line: “from practice for practice.”14 Apr 2026 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:yorbp2mdz6msw4vit5cv6wev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhlpcx4yc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.social/post/3mjfekl2ekk2cHey, cancer epi folks: I’m organizing an informal morning run/walk meet up at #AACR26. If you’d like to join, DM me for details!13 Apr 2026 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:yorbp2mdz6msw4vit5cv6wev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfekl2ekk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.social/post/3mjfejy7vb22cLooking forward to #AACR26 in San Diego in less than a week! Check out these presentations from our team, including the largest ever GWAS of breast cancer & AML and a hot-off-the-presses study of mutational patterns in triple-negative breast cancer.13 Apr 2026 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:yorbp2mdz6msw4vit5cv6wev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfejy7vb22chttps://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.social/post/3mjaimcctvs2sA propos moon bases and Mars colonies: “there will be ample provision for the elite,” Dennis Brutus, 1978.11 Apr 2026 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:yorbp2mdz6msw4vit5cv6wev/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjaimcctvs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.social/post/3lyd4ho35zs2iThis was neat work by @nmancuso.bsky.social et al developing and benchmarking a new multi-ancestry fine-mapping method (“SuShiE”). I learned something about the performance of pooled v stratified analyses but still have some Qs. 1/n [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Sep 2025 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:yorbp2mdz6msw4vit5cv6wev/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyd4ho35zs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.social/post/3lxugib5bqk2vMulti-ancestry GWAS can increase power and precision, but how should we analyze them? Pooled or stratified? We answer that question in a paper out today in AJHG, led by Julie Dias and Haoyu Zhang. 1/7 https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(25)00316-702 Sep 2025 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:yorbp2mdz6msw4vit5cv6wev/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxugib5bqk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.social/post/3lxfjk73anc2iUpvoting this response to the NIH RFI on limiting publishing fees, and highlighting two points. 1/3 [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2025 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:yorbp2mdz6msw4vit5cv6wev/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxfjk73anc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/peter-kraft.bsky.social/post/3lxcouahs3s2rCongrats to Yuxi Liu & co. for showing adherence to a Mediterranean diet lowers dementia risk—especially for those who inherited risky genes. (1/4) [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2025 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:yorbp2mdz6msw4vit5cv6wev/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxcouahs3s2r