🚨 New perspective piece! 🚨 @egatkinson and team developed a hands-on training resource for large-scale genomic data analysis in the @AllofUsResearch Workbench, now published here:

Tractor, a tool developed by Elizabeth Atkinson’s team at Baylor for local ancestry-aware GWAS in admixed populations, gets a new upgrade: Tractor-Mix, which now supports cohorts with high relatedness, such as the Mexico City Prospective Study. Paper: Tan et al. Extending Genome-Wide Association Studies to admixed cohorts with high degrees of relatedness. medRxiv 2025 medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

I have migrated to bluesky but come check out our Bluetorial for the lab's most recent paper there! bsky.app/profile/egatkinson.…

.@AJHGNews' paper by @egatkinson, @mauer_jh, & co. examine accuracy rates & error modes for local ancestry inference (LAI). Their work informs best practices for high-quality LAI vital for genomics applications in admixed populations: cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002… #ASHG

Starting off the new year with a new paper! 🎆📰 Check out @mauer_jh 's fantastic manuscript evaluating features influencing the accuracy of local ancestry inference in admixed populations. Tweetorial posted previously for the preprint below, and PDF at: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kN7d…

📢Online now! 📰Characterizing features affecting local ancestry inference performance in admixed populations 🧑‍🤝‍🧑@egatkinson @MarcosSantoro9 & colleagues cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002…

So happy for my PhD student, @get_grace_, on her award of her F31! Very well deserved 🤩 will be fun working together to reduce disparities in cardiometabolic prediction!

The lab had a great time at #ASHG2024, learning about the newest in genetics and genomics, and with several members seeing snow for the first time!

The Atkinson lab is representing at #ASHG2024! Come check out our work over the next few days:

Hello, everyone! Over the next two weeks, I'd like to invite you to learn what is being done to understand psychiatric disorders in Latin American populations. If you're interested, join us! @LAGCPsychGene #latinamerican #genetics

Please join us on 10/31 for the public report release webinar of the new @NASEM_Health report on The Use of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Research. We’ll be giving a brief recap of the report and have a Q&A open to the public! nationalacademies.org/event/…

Apparently, it’s Boss’s Day today - something I learned when my amazing team surprised me with a custom cookie cake! I’m so touched and grateful to be surrounded by such a talented and thoughtful group. ☺️

So proud of my stellar trainee, @get_grace_ , who will be leading an advocacy workshop for @GeneticsSociety tomorrow! There's still time to register - don’t miss her insights on driving real change in genetics research.

I am so flattered to be part of the @AJHGNews Featured Symposium! Looking forward to talking about the needs and opportunities surrounding genomics research in lower and middle income settings!