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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.

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@thessgac
SSGAC
11 months
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
2 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
3 years
The SSGAC is proud to be sponsoring BGA 2022 .(@BehaviorGenetic) hosted at @USC. #BGA2022.
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@thessgac
SSGAC
3 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
3 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
3 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
3 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
3 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
3 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
3 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
3 years
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.
@AlexTISYoung
Alex Strudwick Young
3 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
4 years
The SSGAC is recruiting research assistants to work on genoeconomics at the @NBER starting in summer 2022. Apply at @econ_ra.
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@thessgac
SSGAC
4 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
4 years
RT @patrickaturley: New pre-print on bioRxiv, "Multi-Ancestry Meta-Analysis yields novel genetic discoveries and ancestry-specific associat….
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@thessgac
SSGAC
4 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
4 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
5 years
RT @UCBITSS: We're happy to announce that we'll be hosting our next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (#RT2) *online* Sep.….
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SSGAC
5 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
6 years
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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@thessgac
SSGAC
6 years
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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