Arslan Zaidi
@aazaidi.bsky.social
Genetics, stats, complex traits. Asst. prof. at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. views my own. he/him - Zaidilab.org
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Arslan Zaidi
@aazaidi.bsky.social
· May 25
Our paper on the theoretical properties of SNP heritability in admixed populations is out in Genetics:
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
with @jinguohuang.bsky.social, @nicole-kleman.bsky.social , Saonli Basu, and Mark Shriver
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
with @jinguohuang.bsky.social, @nicole-kleman.bsky.social , Saonli Basu, and Mark Shriver
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Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
Applied Biostatistics
ybrandvain.github.io
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
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reminder that my (wonderful, diverse, interdisciplinary) department at the University of Oregon is seeking applications for an Associate/Full Professor of Data Science -- deadline 10/31 and only cover letter/CV needed to apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30328
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30328
University of Oregon, Department of Data Science
Job #AJO30328, 535565 Associate or Full Professor of Data Science, Department of Data Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, US
academicjobsonline.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
reminder that my (wonderful, diverse, interdisciplinary) department at the University of Oregon is seeking applications for an Associate/Full Professor of Data Science -- deadline 10/31 and only cover letter/CV needed to apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30328
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30328
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I'm recruiting a postdoc for my group (based in beautiful Eugene, OR). Please get in touch if you're interested, esp if you'd like to chat at #ASHG25!
We'll primarily work at the intersection of statistical and population genetics, and we also have active projects related to the ethical and social implications of human genetics (ELSI). Please get in touch if that's a combination that sounds interesting to you!
October 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I'm recruiting a postdoc for my group (based in beautiful Eugene, OR). Please get in touch if you're interested, esp if you'd like to chat at #ASHG25!
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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If you are at #ASHG2025 and would like to chat in person, please reach out! My lab is looking for curious scientists to join us, especially (but not limited to) postdoctoral researchers.
October 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If you are at #ASHG2025 and would like to chat in person, please reach out! My lab is looking for curious scientists to join us, especially (but not limited to) postdoctoral researchers.
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🔔 Excited to share our preprint from the largest ever exome-wide association study for T2D in South Asians. We make important discoveries implicating the genes HNF4A, GP2, RNF19A in the aetiology of diabetes and metabolic traits in south Asians. 👉 Read it here:
Exome-wide association study in 54,698 south Asians identifies novel type 2 diabetes associations with RNF19A, HNF4A, and dissects role of coding variants in GP2 and CDKAL1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.25336527v1
October 9, 2025 at 6:48 AM
🔔 Excited to share our preprint from the largest ever exome-wide association study for T2D in South Asians. We make important discoveries implicating the genes HNF4A, GP2, RNF19A in the aetiology of diabetes and metabolic traits in south Asians. 👉 Read it here:
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Whoops, wrong hashtag.
If you are going to #ASHG25, check out the line-up!
This is perfect if you are a trainee who needs to network but has no idea how to do it. Instead of trying to corner someone at the posters (which is stressful!), schedule a slot and sit down for 15 minutes to chat!
If you are going to #ASHG25, check out the line-up!
This is perfect if you are a trainee who needs to network but has no idea how to do it. Instead of trying to corner someone at the posters (which is stressful!), schedule a slot and sit down for 15 minutes to chat!
Are you going to #ASHG2025 next week in Boston? Interested in getting some mentorship from leading figures in the field (and me)?
Check out our speed mentoring event on Thursday! Sign-ups are online so reserve a spot ASAP.
site.pheedloop.com/event/ASHG25...
Check out our speed mentoring event on Thursday! Sign-ups are online so reserve a spot ASAP.
site.pheedloop.com/event/ASHG25...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Whoops, wrong hashtag.
If you are going to #ASHG25, check out the line-up!
This is perfect if you are a trainee who needs to network but has no idea how to do it. Instead of trying to corner someone at the posters (which is stressful!), schedule a slot and sit down for 15 minutes to chat!
If you are going to #ASHG25, check out the line-up!
This is perfect if you are a trainee who needs to network but has no idea how to do it. Instead of trying to corner someone at the posters (which is stressful!), schedule a slot and sit down for 15 minutes to chat!
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Super excited to see our reference bias work out in Cell! Reviewers gave us some excellent ideas, and Maria added on some new analyses that broke down how SNPs from heterospecific references mapped or did not map in a conspecific reference.
Now published in Cell! We found that ~15% of SNPs from divergent refs did not liftover as SNPs in the gray fox ref—half mapped to monomorphic sites, half failed to map. Co-authored with Matthew Genchev, @elliecat.bsky.social, and @jazlynmooney.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Super excited to see our reference bias work out in Cell! Reviewers gave us some excellent ideas, and Maria added on some new analyses that broke down how SNPs from heterospecific references mapped or did not map in a conspecific reference.
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Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!
Homepage - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
genetics-gsa.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!
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August 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Another fun year for the #mwpg, this year at the University of Minnesota! Great to see all the trainees participating with their cool work.
August 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Another fun year for the #mwpg, this year at the University of Minnesota! Great to see all the trainees participating with their cool work.
Huge congratulations to my friend @mitopr.bsky.social on being selected as a Pew Biomedical Scholar!
www.pew.org/en/projects/...
www.pew.org/en/projects/...
Maria A. Nieves-Colón, Ph.D.
My research will investigate the genetic and health impacts of the influx of millions of Africans to Latin America during the colonial period.
www.pew.org
August 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Huge congratulations to my friend @mitopr.bsky.social on being selected as a Pew Biomedical Scholar!
www.pew.org/en/projects/...
www.pew.org/en/projects/...
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AlphaSimR course edin.ac/3wfGSEj Week 3 opens with a discussion on genetic variation between relatives, with a focus on siblings. While mutation is the ultimate source of genetic variation (by introducing new alleles), recombination shuffles the existing genetic variation through meiosis.
August 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
AlphaSimR course edin.ac/3wfGSEj Week 3 opens with a discussion on genetic variation between relatives, with a focus on siblings. While mutation is the ultimate source of genetic variation (by introducing new alleles), recombination shuffles the existing genetic variation through meiosis.
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New in #GENETICS: Huang et al. describe biases in SNP & local ancestry heritability as functions of admixture history and the genetic architecture of the trait, clarifying their interpretation and implication for #GWAS & polygenic prediction in population admixture.
Read more: buff.ly/1xB3Mpu
Read more: buff.ly/1xB3Mpu
July 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
New in #GENETICS: Huang et al. describe biases in SNP & local ancestry heritability as functions of admixture history and the genetic architecture of the trait, clarifying their interpretation and implication for #GWAS & polygenic prediction in population admixture.
Read more: buff.ly/1xB3Mpu
Read more: buff.ly/1xB3Mpu
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The Mathieson Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is hiring a computational postdoc in machine learning and evolutionary biology. Apply with a CV and references: [email protected]. More info: https://saramathieson.github.io/lab #postdoc
We are a computational lab focusing on developing machine learning algorithms for biological data. Currently we are working on inference tasks related to natural selection and demographic inference, as well as generative models for genomic data from humans, mosquitos, and other species.
saramathieson.github.io
July 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The Mathieson Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is hiring a computational postdoc in machine learning and evolutionary biology. Apply with a CV and references: [email protected]. More info: https://saramathieson.github.io/lab #postdoc
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Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.11.664181v1
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.11.664181v1
last day tomorrow to register for a talk/poster at Midwest popgen. Please RT(? is that what they say here?)!
Please register if you haven't already done so.
MidWest PopGen is happening in August at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)—abstract deadline for talk: July 11th, and poster: August 1st.
sites.google.com/umn.edu/mwpg...
MidWest PopGen is happening in August at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)—abstract deadline for talk: July 11th, and poster: August 1st.
sites.google.com/umn.edu/mwpg...
MWPG2025
Join us for the 10th Midwest Population Genetics conference, held at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities from August 21 - August 22, 2025.
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July 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
last day tomorrow to register for a talk/poster at Midwest popgen. Please RT(? is that what they say here?)!
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I probably won't have time to make a video out of this.
But the materials are available online, and should be pretty self-explanatory.
Hope this is useful to some people.
privefl.github.io/statgen-cour...
But the materials are available online, and should be pretty self-explanatory.
Hope this is useful to some people.
privefl.github.io/statgen-cour...
July 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I probably won't have time to make a video out of this.
But the materials are available online, and should be pretty self-explanatory.
Hope this is useful to some people.
privefl.github.io/statgen-cour...
But the materials are available online, and should be pretty self-explanatory.
Hope this is useful to some people.
privefl.github.io/statgen-cour...
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Thrilled to see the latest work from the lab (@genscapelab.bsky.social) out in Current Biology! Congratulations @jaurban2204.bsky.social ! 🎉
Grateful to have had the chance to contribute to this effort.
Grateful to have had the chance to contribute to this effort.
Delighted to share that one of my major PhD projects has been published today in Current Biology.
In this paper, we look into the genetic population structure and demographic histories of two populations in Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese and Adivasi [1/n]. www.cell.com/current-biol...
In this paper, we look into the genetic population structure and demographic histories of two populations in Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese and Adivasi [1/n]. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Population histories of the Indigenous Adivasi and Sinhalese from Sri Lanka using whole genomes
Sri Lanka is home to diverse ethnic groups with different genetic histories. Urban
Aragon et al. find that despite close genetic affinities, Indigenous Adivasi have
more hunter-gatherer ancestry and l...
www.cell.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Thrilled to see the latest work from the lab (@genscapelab.bsky.social) out in Current Biology! Congratulations @jaurban2204.bsky.social ! 🎉
Grateful to have had the chance to contribute to this effort.
Grateful to have had the chance to contribute to this effort.
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Please register if you haven't already done so.
MidWest PopGen is happening in August at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)—abstract deadline for talk: July 11th, and poster: August 1st.
sites.google.com/umn.edu/mwpg...
MidWest PopGen is happening in August at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)—abstract deadline for talk: July 11th, and poster: August 1st.
sites.google.com/umn.edu/mwpg...
MWPG2025
Join us for the 10th Midwest Population Genetics conference, held at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities from August 21 - August 22, 2025.
sites.google.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Please register if you haven't already done so.
MidWest PopGen is happening in August at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)—abstract deadline for talk: July 11th, and poster: August 1st.
sites.google.com/umn.edu/mwpg...
MidWest PopGen is happening in August at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)—abstract deadline for talk: July 11th, and poster: August 1st.
sites.google.com/umn.edu/mwpg...
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📢 Just posted: Our preprint introducing SPC — Spectral Components — is now live on medRxiv!
Led by Dr. Ruhollah Shemirani and years in the making, this method offers a robust, scalable way to adjust for recent population structure in genomic analyses.
🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/9
Led by Dr. Ruhollah Shemirani and years in the making, this method offers a robust, scalable way to adjust for recent population structure in genomic analyses.
🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/9
SPC: a SPectral Component approach to address recent population structure in genomic analysis
Population structure is a well-known confounder in statistical genetics, particularly in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), where it can lead to inflated test statistics and spurious associations...
www.medrxiv.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
📢 Just posted: Our preprint introducing SPC — Spectral Components — is now live on medRxiv!
Led by Dr. Ruhollah Shemirani and years in the making, this method offers a robust, scalable way to adjust for recent population structure in genomic analyses.
🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/9
Led by Dr. Ruhollah Shemirani and years in the making, this method offers a robust, scalable way to adjust for recent population structure in genomic analyses.
🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/9
Website and hotel info for Midwest popgen. Please register (free!) and book rooms asap to get ahead of the State Fair crowd.
The world may be aflame but we can try to find some community with each other. #mwpg25 slogan?
sites.google.com/umn.edu/mwpg...
The world may be aflame but we can try to find some community with each other. #mwpg25 slogan?
sites.google.com/umn.edu/mwpg...
June 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Website and hotel info for Midwest popgen. Please register (free!) and book rooms asap to get ahead of the State Fair crowd.
The world may be aflame but we can try to find some community with each other. #mwpg25 slogan?
sites.google.com/umn.edu/mwpg...
The world may be aflame but we can try to find some community with each other. #mwpg25 slogan?
sites.google.com/umn.edu/mwpg...
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Our new work is now out in AJHG "Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples." Great collaboration with @delvecchyo.bsky.social and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, led by Valeria Añorve-Garibay.
📣Online now!
📄Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples
🧑🤝🧑 @delvecchyo.bsky.social @mashaals.bsky.social & co
📄Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples
🧑🤝🧑 @delvecchyo.bsky.social @mashaals.bsky.social & co
Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples
Using polygenic scores, we find that two types of natural selection, stabilizing selection
and directional selection, can decrease the prediction accuracy of complex traits
in ancient individuals. We ...
www.cell.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Our new work is now out in AJHG "Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples." Great collaboration with @delvecchyo.bsky.social and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, led by Valeria Añorve-Garibay.
**10th Midwest PopGen Conference**
Location: UMN Twin Cities,
Date: Aug 21–22!
Events: Talks, Posters, dinner + MN State Fair.
Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... -- Abstracts by June 15 // Register by Aug 1.
Add to calendar: calendar.google.com/calendar/eve...
#MidwestPopGen
Location: UMN Twin Cities,
Date: Aug 21–22!
Events: Talks, Posters, dinner + MN State Fair.
Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... -- Abstracts by June 15 // Register by Aug 1.
Add to calendar: calendar.google.com/calendar/eve...
#MidwestPopGen
Midwest Population Genetics 2025 Registration
docs.google.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
**10th Midwest PopGen Conference**
Location: UMN Twin Cities,
Date: Aug 21–22!
Events: Talks, Posters, dinner + MN State Fair.
Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... -- Abstracts by June 15 // Register by Aug 1.
Add to calendar: calendar.google.com/calendar/eve...
#MidwestPopGen
Location: UMN Twin Cities,
Date: Aug 21–22!
Events: Talks, Posters, dinner + MN State Fair.
Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... -- Abstracts by June 15 // Register by Aug 1.
Add to calendar: calendar.google.com/calendar/eve...
#MidwestPopGen