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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nicholas Eriksson\nAbstract: With the costs of genotyp
 ing and sequencing dropping rapidly\, bringing together\nindividuals to co
 llect phenotypes becomes a proportionally greater hurdle in genetic\nresea
 rch. As the flurry of genetic progress in the last decade has created an e
 xcitement\nabout genetics in the public\, 23andMe has brought together ove
 r 150\,000 consumers in\norder to learn about their genetics and to partic
 ipate in new research using web-based\nsurveys. This has allowed us to stu
 dy over 1\,000 different diseases and traits\, most of\nwhich have never b
 een analyzed in large scale human genetics. I'll show how this approach\nc
 an lead to interesting results for a wide range of phenotypes\, including 
 Parkinson's\ndisease\, allergies\, and a wide variety of morphological tra
 its. We have discovered over 250\nnovel associations for morphological tra
 its such as shoe size\, dimples\, and nose shape.\nThese associations show
  that there is an interesting\, complex genetic architecture\nunderlying h
 uman morphology and point towards a possible role of morphology driving\ns
 election. I'll also discuss the current state of risk prediction based on 
 genetics and give\nsome projections for the future.
LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, Central Building\, ISTA
ORGANIZER:ihetzenauer@ist.ac.at
SUMMARY:Nicholas Eriksson: Institute Colloquium: Interactive web-based gene
 tic research at 23andMe
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/466
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