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Author: Zoltan Kutalik

Eleonora receives prestigious Young Investigator Award of ESHG

21 June 201821 June 2018 - by Zoltan Kutalik

The European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) held its yearly conference 16-19 June 2018 in Milan, Italy. Eleonora Porcu received the Young Investigator Award for the best talk in statistical genetics …

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Zoltan became associate professor

14 May 2018 - by Zoltan Kutalik

After 5 years on tenure track, on 1 April 2018, Zoltan has been appointed as associate professor of the University of Lausanne.

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Bayesian GWAS: Lifespan

1 August 20173 August 2017 - by Zoltan Kutalik

The answer to how long each of us will live is partly encoded in our genome. We have identified 16 genetic markers associated with a decreased lifespan, including 14 new …

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Sina & Aaron win poster prize of the Functional Annotation Workshop

16 March 2017 - by Zoltan Kutalik

Sina Rüeger and Aaron McDaid won the poster prize at the Functional Annotation of Genome-wide variants Workshop held 14-15 March in Lausanne. Their poster was entitled “Improved summary statistics imputation …

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Rare variants alter human height by up to 2cm

3 February 201713 February 2017 - by Zoltan Kutalik

Our group contributed to a large international study published on 1 February in Nature, where over 300 scientists from across the globe have combined their effort to study in more than …

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Sina Rüeger receives Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award

30 May 2016 - by Zoltan Kutalik

The European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) held its yearly conference 21-24 May 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. Sina Rüeger (PhD student) received the Young Investigator Award for the best talk in statistical …

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15 genes impacting obesity have different effects as we age

6 October 20156 October 2015 - by Zoltan Kutalik

Adult body size and body shape differ substantially between men and women and change over time. More than hundred genetic variants that influence body mass index (measure of body size) …

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Study Examines Association of Genetic Variants with Cognitive Impairment

27 May 2015 - by Zoltan Kutalik

Study Examines Association of Genetic Variants with Cognitive Impairment Individually rare but collectively common intermediate-size copy number variations may be negatively associated with educational attainment, according to a study in …

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Parental origin of the genetic code matters for obesity

6 August 20147 August 2014 - by Zoltan Kutalik

High-throughput technologies have opened new perspectives to unravel the genetic cause of various diseases or physiological traits, such as body mass index (BMI). Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) measure the correlation …

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Metabolome Genetics

24 February 20147 August 2014 - by Zoltan Kutalik

We are interested in how genotypic variability impacts molecular phenotypes and how, together with the environment, this affects complex human traits and disease susceptibility. Our focal molecular phenotype involves the …

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