Alexander Busch
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MD PhD | Emmy Noether research group leader | Pediatrics & Reproductive Potential | @UK_Muenster | @Group_Busch | he/him
Münster, Deutschland
Joined December 2017
RT @SatchinPanda: 🧬✨ Cortisol and related hormones rise and fall with both daily (circadian) and shorter (ultradian) rhythms. This study u….
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RT @EJEndo: #CoMICWednesday.#EJECoMICs Ep 60: NEW @EJEndo paper: Role of genetics in the age-related testosterone decline in men: a UK Biob….
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RT @andganna: Impressive paper by EPIC. They built a autoregressive transformer on 150M individuals and 115 billion.medical events. Inclu….
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RT @andganna: The iPSYCH study represents a unique example to understand the ethical and legal challenges of using existing samples/data fo….
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The iPsych project, which investigates the genetics of psychiatric disorders, has sent 140,000 opt-out notices amid backlash
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RT @SashaGusevPosts: A few thoughts on Herasight, the new embryo selection company. First, the post below and the white paper imply that co….
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RT @NatureMedicine: Polygenic scores for BMI and obesity constructed using data from 5M individuals with different ancestries were associat….
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Nature Medicine - Polygenic scores for body mass index and obesity constructed using data from 5 million people with different ancestries were associated with distinct weight gain trajectories from...
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#ENDO2025.AI meets genetics to uncover the biology behind testicular volume (as proxy for quantitative spermatogenesis) in nearly 19,000 men. A fresh look at male fertility through big data and smart imaging. #MaleFertility #Genetics #AI #UKBiobank
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Attending #ENDO2025 in San Francisco this week. Presenting findings from our GWAS on testicular size on Monday.
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RT @patsule: Sequence diversity lost in early pregnancy | Nature @nature congrats to all collaborators on this landmark paper https://t.co….
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Nature - Around 1 in 136 pregnancies is lost due to a pathogenic small sequence variant genotype in the fetus.
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RT @SashaGusevPosts: I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly….
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RT @rmfreathy: So happy to see this published in NatComms! Rare variant assocs with birth wt identify 9 genes. Insi….
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Nature Communications - An exome-wide association study for fetal and maternal rare deleterious variants affecting the normal variation in birth weight identifies nine genes involved in adipose...
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RT @marchini: Introducing a new method called REMETA from the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) @RegeneronDNA for meta-analysis of gene-based….
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Meta-analysis of gene-based tests using single variant summary statistics is a powerful strategy for associating genes with disease. However, current approaches require sharing the covariance matrix...
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RT @FinnGen_FI: Million Veteran Program & FinnGen teams are pleased to release v1 meta-analysis of MVP, FinnGen and UKBB GWAS data. This f….
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RT @joellembatchou: REGENIE v4.0 is live!🎉 You can now analyze time-to-event phenotypes, leveraging power gains with case-control phenotype….
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regenie is a C++ program for whole genome regression modelling of large genome-wide association studies. - rgcgithub/regenie
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RT @SashaGusevPosts: "Although [whole genome sequencing] results in an approximately fivefold increase in the total number of assayed varia….
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Nature Genetics - Comparison of association signals in UK Biobank using different strategies for assessing genetic variation shows that whole-exome sequencing combined with array genotyping and...
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RT @ewanbirney: Great to see this paper out by @D_Westergaard and colleagues - including myself - leveraging the just jaw-droppingly good c….
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Nature Communications - Discovering the genetic roots of diseases is a major question in genetic research. Here, the authors shed light on pleiotropy across diseases using a new method, scaled to...
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RT @doctorveera: Another mind-blowing discovery from deCODE team. Homozygosity of a loss of function variant (p.Arg162Ter) in CCDC201, an….
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RT @ReproductionMS: Thrilled to see this outstanding work published in @NatureComms 🎉 Congratulations to the entire team for their hard wo….
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