📢 Exciting news! 📢 The deadline for submissions to #IWSM 2024 has been extended! 🎉 Don't miss your chance to showcase your research and join fellow statisticians from around the globe. Submit your abstracts by 27 February! #DeadlineExtension 📊📈📚✨

There is one month left to submit your short paper! 📝
We can't wait for all your fantastic research. 🔍 In the meantime, have a look at last year's proceedings: iwsm2023.statistik.tu-dortmund.de

If you're making travel plans for the summer during christmas break, consider attending this lovely conference in July!

We've developed an open-source AI, Deeplasia, for the high-precision measurement of children's bone age—an important indicator of skeletal and biological maturity. Visit the project website (deeplasia.de) for more info ... (1/4)
#AI #digitalmedicine #deeplearning

Our group in Bonn is looking for a PhD student in biostatistics! 🎓If you would like to work with us please have a look at the job offer at imbie.uni-bonn.de/working-groups… and reach out if you have any questions! 🥳 #PhD #Science #ResearchOpportunity #BiostatisticsPhD

Thanks Daniel Felsky for including me and everyone for the nice PRS session and discussions! 🙏🏻

I could not agree more!

GestaltMatcher Database - a FAIR database for medical imaging data of rare disorders medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

Would be most happy to see many of you there and discuss our lumping and splitting analysis using GestaltMatcher (.eth)! #ESHG2023

We are delighted to have Ann Smith visit us on Monday to share her story of discovering Smith-Magenis Syndrome. If you are interested, you can also join online: uni-bonn.zoom.us/j/61176449093?…
Zoom-Meeting-ID:     611 7644 9093
Kenncode:       250906

#TRANSLATE_NAMSE was the largest joint effort in Germany to improve diagnostics for patients affected by rare diseases. 170+ clinician scientists contributed, identified 34+ novel disease loci, and interacted with AI. Please share your stories! bit.ly/41OkjnN

And here it is, now peer-reviewed and open access Oxford Journals. Thanks to all reviewers for very constructive feedback, as well as Axel Schmidt, Hannah Klinkhammer and Martin Kircher for taking the paper over the finish line. 🥂

academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

Internationales Forschungsteam um MPI-EVA Leipzig entschlüsselt das Genom von Ludwig van #Beethoven . Forschende des Instituts für Humangenetik der #UniBonn übernehmen die medizinische Auswertung. Veröffentlichung in Current Biology. Interview und Infos: uni-bonn.de/de/neues/beeth…

A fully packed room at the #Bioinformatics session of #GfH2023 today when Hannah Klinkhammer, Meghna, Alex, and I (from Institute of Genomic Statistics & Bioinformatics) presented GestaltMatcher (.eth), PEDIA (@Pedia_Team), Face2HPO, and Deeplasia (Deeplasia.de).

Please give bigger rooms to bioinformaticians 😉

Family History , rare pathogenic variants, and common variants (PRS) complementary contribute to CRC risk.
PRS might improve personalized risk stratification for CRC. #CRCprevention #PRS #cancerresearch
bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Today is a good day! Our paper on using statistical boosting for PRS (and my very first 1st author paper) is published! 🥳
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Ihr seid interessiert an komplexgenetischen Phänotypen aber habt bisher noch keinen Einstieg ins Thema gefunden? Habt ihr Fragen zu GWAS, Follow-up studies & polygenen Risikoscores? We got you covered 👇
akademie-humangenetik.de/de/aktuelle-ku…

Christian Schaaf Malte Spielmann Martin Kircher Junge Humangenetik