Head of Statistical Genetics lab at QIMR Berhofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. Views are my own.
Joined September 2014
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
5 Nov 2025
We recently passed 1 million curated SNP-trait associations!
See how the GWAS Diagram has changed with the significant data growth.
Contribute to our growing dataset and the diagram view by submitting your #SumStats and now also your top assoc. bit.ly/38rNSjx
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
The exponential growth in the discovery of genomic loci associated with human traits and diseases continues.
From 1 association for age-related macular degeneration in 2005 to >1 million by the end of 2025.
Data from the @GWASCatalog.
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
Apr 16
Nice article in the New York Times (archive.is/LiQsj) on Akbari et al. Nature finding a large number of novel loci under selection in ancient DNA data. Here's what I wrote when asked for comment:
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
#AAHMSFellow @stuartmacgreg of @QIMRB_Institute is a world authority on the conduct and analysis of genetic association studies. He has led studies which have mapped hundreds of genes for diseases ranging from skin cancer to eye disease.
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
27 Aug 2024
probably Theseus, but it’s changed over time
guys whats the first ever ship that you obsessed over? like fully absorbed into your veins. couldnt get out of your head. would physically react to their scenes on screen and watch edits of them for hours on end.
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
25 Aug 2024
A 5-year observational study of ~12,000 individuals with obesity taking GLP-1 drugs (without diabetes) with propensity matched controls
A significant reduction of all-cause mortality (HR 0.23, 95% CI 0.15, 0.34)
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
7 Aug 2024
Two impressive @Nature papers on the genomics of colon cancer, linking with outcomes, identify new mutations, likely role of diet and strengthen the case for sequencing to be used in medical practice
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
7 Aug 2024
Kind of a big deal: GPT-4 simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments with high accuracy
Note this is done by having the AI prompted to respond to survey questions as a person given random demographic characteristics & surveying thousands of "AI people"
7 Aug 2024
🚨New WP: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments?🚨
Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments?
Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects 🧵👇
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
13 Jul 2024
Cigarette sales and lung cancer deaths are the same curve, shifted 25 years.
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
11 Jun 2024
Today we opened a web portal for our 210,000 biobank participants! We currently return results on:
- Genetic & cumulative risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes;
- Pharmacogenetics reports;
- Ancestry information;
- Fun facts, e.g.caffeine metabolism & % Neanderthal.
11 Jun 2024
Täna on suur päev! #MinuGeenivaramu teadusportaal on lõpuks avatud kõigile geenidoonoritele 🥳 portaal.geenidoonor.ee/
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4 Jun 2024
Sobering reading for any one who has put countless hours into grant writing (or been on a review panel)
3 Jun 2024
"A random half of panelists were shown a CV and only a one-paragraph summary of the proposed research, while the other half were shown a CV and a full proposal. We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact rankings."
link.springer.com/article/10…
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
6 May 2024
After 20 years and 42 days, Illumina's patent covering DNA microarray normalization, clustering, and genotyping, together known as Illumina GenCall, filed on March 24th 2004, has expired patentcenter.uspto.gov/appli… 1/8
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
2 May 2024
Congratulations to Professor @stuartmacgreg on being awarded a highly competitive national funding grants for crucial research into #glaucoma risk prediction.
The @nhmrc’s Investigator Grants were announced on Thursday...
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
11 Apr 2024
Mendelian Randomisation (MR) is going to hell in a handcart, with an exponential weekly increase of papers with Mendelian Randomisation in the title, most of them nonsense. 25th April 4.30pm online or in person @ucl I'll talk about what should be done forms.office.com/pages/respo…
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
15 Feb 2024
Very sadly, we have learned of the death of Professor Peter Armitage, CBE. Peter, who worked in a forerunner of the Unit 1947-1961, was a pioneer in developing statistical methodology for medical research. Our annual Armitage Lecture began in 2003 to honour this special man.
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
13 Feb 2024
We will add an asterisk symbol next to our names with the caption 'These authors contributed equally to this work'
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
23 Jan 2024
This means Australians are being left behind. Our future prosperity, health, environment, and security depends on it.
Australia being ‘left behind’ as federal research and development funding sinks to 30-year low theguardian.com/business/202…
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
16 Jan 2024
If you're aged 50-65 years and have a family history of glaucoma (affected parent and/or sibling) but no personal history of the disease, we invite you to be part of our study.
Apply here: qimrberghofer.edu.au/genetic…
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Stuart MacGregor retweeted
3 Jan 2024
ICYM our brilliant 2023: A stunning year of medical breakthroughs for Queenslanders @QIMRBerghofer
couriermail.com.au/news/quee… via @couriermail @JSinnerton
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