SSGAC
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The SSGAC is a cooperative enterprise among medical researchers and social scientists that coordinates genetic association studies for social science outcomes.
Joined November 2015
The SSGAC is seeking research assistants for social-science genomics research at @UCLA beginning in summer 2025. Please send the application materials specified in the below link directly to ssgacrecruit@gmail.com. . @econ_ra @predoc_org.
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The SSGAC is recruiting research assistants to work on research at the interface of social-science genomics @UCLA starting in summer 2024. Send the application materials listed in directly to ssgacrecruit@gmail.com. @econ_ra.@predoc_org.
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We continue to look for ways to improve our communication, especially as we remember the victims of this tragedy in Buffalo.
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In our data portal, we also ask users to acknowledge that comparing genetically predicted outcomes across ancestry groups is usually scientifically confounded and to read ASHG statements about group harm and against linking genes to racial supremacy
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We try hard to communicate in ways that won't be misunderstood, but we have more work to do. Our efforts include writing and disseminating FAQs that explain how our findings should NOT be interpreted or used, including to compare European and African populations (FAQ 3.5).
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The murderer probably didn’t truly care what scientific research actually finds. Still, research doesn't exist in a vacuum. Researchers have a responsibility to consider how they present their findings to the scientific community and the world.
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We're heartbroken to see that a paper authored by the SSGAC is one of the papers grotesquely mischaracterized as evidence for white genetic supremacy. We reaffirm none of our research shows that genes cause racial disparities (FAQs 1.4, 2.5, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7).
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His manifesto confirms this was a premeditated hate crime against the Black community. This evil attack extends a legacy of enslavement, attempted dehumanization, and violence against Black people in the US. The latest victims, their families, and Buffalo are in our hearts.
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This weekend a white supremacist murdered 10 people in Buffalo New York. He targeted people in a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood. Eleven of the 13 people that he shot were Black.
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Our paper on educational attainment is out in Nature Genetics: For more information you can check out the FAQs ( and @AlexTISYoung's thread on the paper.
New educational attainment (EA) GWAS out today: We expand the sample size from ~1 million to ~3 million, making it one of the largest GWAS to date. We identify more loci affecting EA and increase our ability to predict EA from genetic data, and more. 🧵
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Our publication is now live on Nature Human Behaviour: For more information, see our FAQs (, additional repository details (, and @AysuOkbay's thread.
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RT @patrickaturley: New pre-print on bioRxiv, "Multi-Ancestry Meta-Analysis yields novel genetic discoveries and ancestry-specific associat….
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2/2 RSF Summer Institute in Social-Science Genomics dates have been pushed to Aug. 8-20, 2021. Application deadline is now April 9. More info:
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1/2 Announcing RSF Summer Institute in Social-Science Genomics 2021. Excellent opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty to learn the methods of social-science genomics - the analysis of genomic data in social science. More info:
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RT @fleurmeddens: GWAS of dietary intake: A thread to help interpret our results. All technical details are exhaustively described in our S….
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Go to the "Materials" tab at the top of the page to find all of the problem sets, the reading list, and links to the lecture videos.
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Check out the lecture videos feat. our lovely instructors + other materials from the 2019 @RussellSageFdn Summer Institute in Social Science Genomics! .
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