Sasha Gusev
@SashaGusevPosts
Statistical geneticist | Associate Prof at @DanaFarber / @harvardmed / @DFCIPopSci | Blogging at https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com
I've written about race, genetic ancestry, analyses of large biobanks, and human history gusevlab.org/projects/hsq/#… I'll summarize the key points here 🧵:
Happy to share that our work from the @nmancuso_ lab is out in @NatureGenet! We developed SuShiE, a multiancestry fine-mapping method for molecular traits. doi.org/10.1038/s41588…
One of the most striking figures I've seen in a recent ML paper was 87% accuracy for predicting insurance claim denial by the NYUTron medical language model [Jiang et al. 2023; nature.com/articles/s4158… ].
i acquired a back injury this morning while bouldering and suddenly all this virtual cell and ai co-scientist stuff seems kinda out of touch with what real humans go through every day in the medical system
I'm excited to share work on a research direction my team has been advancing: connecting machine learning derived genetic variant embeddings to downstream tasks in human genetics. This work was led by the amazing @divyanshi91! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Please all culture warriors. You don’t understand heritability at all
Nice discussion here. A particularly good point about why we both do and do not care about heritability.