December 16, 2022
Webinar 14: December 15th, 2022 11:00am EST / 4:00pm GMT / 5:00pm CET Agenda 1. Welcome Speaker: Andrea Ganna, FIMM [slides] 2. Data Freeze 7 update Speaker: Masahiro Kanai, The Broad Institute [slides] 3. Long COVID working group update Speaker: Hanna Ollila, FIMM (with Vilma Lammi, FIMM, Samuel Jones, FIMM, and Tomoko Nakanishi, McGill) [slides] 4. Open discussion Q&A: [here] Recording: [here]
February 07, 2022
Webinar 13: February 1st, 2022 11:00am EST / 4:00pm GMT / 6:00pm CET Agenda 1. Welcome Speaker: Andrea Ganna, FIMM [slides] 2. Data Freeze 7 analysis update Speaker: Juha Karjalainen, FIMM [slides] 3. Long COVID Working group update Speaker: Vilma Lammi, FIMM (with Hanna Ollila, Broad Institute, Samuel Jones, FIMM and Tomoko Nakanishi, McGill) [slides] 4. Community Scientific Updates Topics…
December 15, 2021
Written by Venceslas Douillard, Jamal Nasir, PhD, Nathan Pearson, PhD, Jeffrey Rosenfeld, PhD and Sophie Limou, PhD Edited by Brooke Wolford, PhD Note: This blog is intended for an audience of scientists and contains terminology specific to the field of genetics & genomics. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 shook our lives almost two years ago. The virus has infected at least 251 million individuals and…
September 27, 2021
Webinar 12: September 20th, 2021 10:00am EDT / 3:00pm BST / 4:00pm CEST Agenda 1. Welcome (5 min) Speaker: Andrea Ganna, FIMM [slides] 2. Data Freeze 6 analysis update (15 min) Speaker: Gita Pathak, Yale University (with Nadia Hareimana, MSSM and Mattia Cordioli, FIMM) [slides] 3. Working group updates (25 min) Topics & speakers: a. Long COVID working group update, Vilma Lammi, FIMM (with Hanna…
July 30, 2021
COVID-19 HGI Results for Data Freeze 6 (June 2021) Written by Chloe Kirk, BS and Guillaume Butler Laporte, MD Edited by Brooke Wolford, PhD and Kumar Veerapen, PhD Note: The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI) represents a consortium of over 3000 scientists from over 54 countries working collaboratively to share data, ideas, recruit patients and disseminate our findings. For a primer on our…
July 15, 2021
கோவிட் -19 மரபியல் பெருந்திரள் முன்னெடுப்பு (HGI): அதிகம் கேட்கப்படும் கேள்விகள் (FAQ) (ஏப்ரல் 20, 2021) எழுதியவர்கள்:ஜேம்ஸ் ப்ரிஸ்ட், ப்ரூக் வோல்போஃர்ட், நிர்மல் வட்கமா, சோபி லிமோவ், எம். மெடினா கோமேஸ், அட்டானு குமார் டத்தா, க்ளவுடியா ஸ்கர்மன், ஃபவுசான் அஹ்மாட், ஜமால் நசீர், குமார் வீரப்பன் குறிப்பு: கோவிட் -1…
July 12, 2021
יוזמת גנטיקה מארחת של COVID-19: שאלות נפוצות אפריל 2021 נכתב על ידי: James Priest, Brooke Wolford, Nirmal Vadgama, Sophie Limou, M Medina Gomez, Atanu Kumar Dutta, Claudia Schurmann, Fauzan Ahmad, Jamal Nasir, Kumar Veerapen מתרגם לעברית על ידי Jeffrey Rosenfeld & Yael Michaeli הערה: יוזמת הגנטיקה המארחת COVID-19 HGI מייצגת קונסורציום של למעלה מ -2000 מדענים ממעל 5…
July 07, 2021
Written by Gita Pathak, PhD; Annika Faucon B.S.; Atanu Kumar Dutta, MD Edited by Kumar Veerapen, PhD and Brooke Wolford, PhD The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has resulted in a pandemic claiming the lives of more than 3.2 million individuals and infecting more than 156 million individuals worldwide (WHO: https…
June 17, 2021
9:00am EDT / 2:00pm BST / 3:00pm CEST Agenda: 1. Welcome (5 min) Speaker: Andrea Ganna, FIMM [slides] 2. Manuscript final update (5 min) Speaker: Mari Niemi, FIMM [slides] 3. New results from data freeze 6 (15 min) Speaker: Juha Karjalainen, FIMM [slides] 4. Working group updates (20 min) Topics & speakers: a. Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection ("long COVID") working group update (Vilma…
April 20, 2021
Written by: James Priest, Brooke Wolford, Nirmal Vadgama, Sophie Limou, M Medina Gomez, Atanu Kumar Dutta, Claudia Schurmann, Fauzan Ahmad, Jamal Nasir, Kumar Veerapen Note: The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI) represents a consortium of over 2000 scientists from over 54 countries working collaboratively to share data, ideas, recruit patients and disseminate our findings. For a primer on…
April 15, 2021
Webinar 10: April 9th, 2021 9:00am EDT / 2:00pm BST / 3:00pm CEST Agenda: 1. Welcome (5 min) Speaker: Andrea Ganna, FIMM 2. Manuscript revisions & resubmission update (25 min) Speakers: Mari Niemi, FIMM; Shea Andrews, Icahn School of Medicine; Gita Pathak, Yale; Masa Kanai, Broad Institute [Slides] 3. New work (20 min) Topics & speakers: a. Plans to study the genetics of Post-Acute Sequelae of…
April 15, 2021
Written by Guillaume Butler-Laporte, Minttu Marttila, Kumar Veerapen Note: This update is geared towards the scientific community as an update to note the sequencing analysis efforts in COVID-19 host genetics. If you have further enquiries, please send us an email at hgi-faq@icda.bio —we’d be happy to update the information here to provide more clarity. The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative’s…
March 02, 2021
Webinar 10: February 26th, 2021 9:00am EST / 2:00pm GMT / 3:00pm CET Agenda: 1. Welcome & updates (35 min) Topics & speakers: a. Manuscript overview & timeline; next steps for HGI (Andrea Ganna, FIMM) [Slides] b. Manuscript review process & updated figures (Mari Niemi, FIMM; Shea Andrews, Icahn School of Medicine; Gita Pathak, Yale; Masa Kanai, Broad Institute) [Slides] 2. Community updates (2…
March 02, 2021
Written by Minttu Marttila, Annika Faucon, Nirmal Vadgama, Shea Andrews, Brooke Wolford, and Kumar Veerapen on behalf of the COVID-19 HGI Note: The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI) represents a consortium of over 2000 scientists from over 54 countries working collaboratively to share data, ideas, recruit patients and disseminate our findings. For a primer on our study design, please read…
February 19, 2021
Written by Nirmal Vadgama, PhD Edited by Kumar Veerapen, PhD and Jamal Nasir, PhD Note: This blog post is catered to the lay audience. The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI) represents a consortium of over 1000 scientists from over 54 countries working collaboratively to share data, ideas, recruit patients and disseminate our findings. For a primer on our study design or the results from the…
February 05, 2021
Written by Annika Faucon and Shea Andrews, PhD Edited by Kumar Veerapen, PhD Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible and pathogenic virus that emerged in late 2019 and as of February 2021 has resulted in more than 2.4 million deaths (further reading: Dong, Ru, and Gardner, 2020). The threat SARS-CoV-2 presents is not uniform; certain pre-existing…
January 29, 2021
Webinar 8: January 25th, 2021 9:00am EST / 2:00pm GMT / 3:00pm CET Agenda: 1. Welcome & updates (25 min) Topics & speakers: a. Results from data freeze 5 meta-analysis (Andrea Ganna, FIMM) [Slides] b. HGI data browser (Matt Solomonson, Broad Institute) 2. COVID-19 HGI manuscript update (25 min) Topics & speakers: a. Manuscript overview & figures (Mari Niemi, FIMM) [Slides] b. Next steps for HGI…
November 24, 2020
Webinar 8: November 23rd, 2020 9:00am EST / 2:00pm GMT / 3:00pm CET Agenda: 1. Welcome & updates Speakers: Andrea Ganna (FIMM) [Slides], Matthew Solomonson (Broad) [Slides] Group discussion 2. COVID-19 HGI manuscript update Topics & speakers: a. Manuscript development process and status updates (Andrea Ganna, FIMM) b. Proposed consortium review process (Ben Neale, MGH & Broad) c. Initial proposed…
November 24, 2020
Written by Jamal Nasir, Brooke Wolford, and Kumar Veerapen on behalf of the COVID-19 HGI Edited by Emi Harry, Atanu Kumar Dutta, and Rachel Liao Note: The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI) represents a consortium of over 1000 scientists from over 54 countries working collaboratively to share data, ideas, recruit patients and disseminate our findings. For a primer on our study design or the…
October 28, 2020
Written by Gita Pathak, PhD Edited by Brooke Wolford, BS & Kumar Veerapen, PhD The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has drastically impacted global health by resulting in millions of COVID-19 cases and deaths of more than 200,000 individuals. The wide-ranging symptoms observed in COVID-19 patients have led researchers to focus on the diversity of the human genome for clues that may explain the individual…
October 28, 2020
Webinar 7: October 23rd, 2020 9am EDT / 1:00pm GMT / 2:00pm BST Agenda: 1. Welcome & updates (20 min) Speakers: Andrea Ganna (FIMM), Juha Karjalainen (FIMM), Brooke Wolford (UMich) & Kumar Veerapen (Broad) & group discussion [Slides] 2. Sequencing & analysis efforts for COVID19 samples (25 min) Speakers: Jack Kosmicki (Regeneron) [Slides] Brent Richards (McGill) [Slides] & group discussion…
October 22, 2020
DISCLAIMER: In-silico analyses posted in this page are uploaded by partners of the COVID-19 HGI, but not peer reviewed or subjected to extensive quality control by the community. Please keep that in mind when using these results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please find the results from V3 (June 2020) here Fine-mapping Summary: We conducted statistical…
October 02, 2020
Webinar 6: October 2nd, 2020 9:00am EDT / 1:00pm GMT / 2:00pm BST Agenda: 1. Welcome & updates Speakers: Andrea Ganna, Juha Karjalainen & Mark Daly (FIMM) [slides] 2. Community talks presenting new science Speakers: Silva Kasela (NYGC) [Slides] Jenny Huffman (Million Veterans Program) [Slides] Gita Pathek (Yale) [Slides] Jeanne Savage (VU University) [Slides] Kenny Baillie (UEdinburgh & GenOMICC…
September 25, 2020
Brooke Wolford and Kumar Veerapen, on behalf of the COVID-19 HGI The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the everyday lives of societies around the world. Scientists around the world are working hard to better understand the virus and disease. We represent one such group—the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI)—an international team of geneticists focused on identifying human genetic variation that…
August 28, 2020
Webinar 5: August 27th, 2020 10:00am EDT / 2pm GMT / 3pm BST Agenda: 1. Welcome & updates (15 min) Speaker: Andrea Ganna (FIMM) [Slides] Reading: Analysis plan v1.1 2. Dissemination of scientific results (15 min) Speaker: Mark Daly (FIMM) [Slides] Ben Neale (MGH/Broad) & group discussion [Slides] 3. Lightning talks presenting new science (30 min) Speakers: Genevieve Roberts (Ancestry) [Slides…
July 02, 2020
Webinar 4: July 2nd, 2020 9:00pm EDT / 1pm GMT / 2pm BST Agenda: 1. Welcome & updates Speaker: Andrea Ganna (FIMM) [Slides] 2. Terms of use discussion Speaker: Mark Daly (FIMM) & group discussion Reading: ToU Proposal 3. Community updates Speakers: Patrick Sulem (deCODE) [Slides] Daniel Wilson (BDI, Oxford) [Slides] 4. Lightning talks presenting in silico analyses Contributors and results are…
June 29, 2020
Here we post the results from the in-silico follow up analysis done of summary statistics from release 3. Heritability, genetic correlations and MAGMA Summary: We created a map of candidate genomic regions associated with COVID19 phenotypes and explored the functional implications of the candidate variants/genes based on known bioinformatics sources using the functional annotation platform FUMA…
June 02, 2020
Webinar 3: 5/29/2020 9:00pm EDT / 1pm GMT / 2pm BST Agenda: 1. Welcome & updates Speakers: Mark Daly & Andrea Ganna (FIMM) [Slides] 2. Phenotype definitions v2 Speaker: James Priest (Stanford) [Slides] Reading: Phenotypes v2 3. Analysis update Speaker: Ben Neale (Broad Institute) [Slides] 4. Lightning talks presenting early results Speakers: Nick Manusco (USC) [Slides] Lea Davis (VUMC) [Slides…
May 17, 2020
Updated results and summary statistic downloads are now available from the (still small but growing!) COVID-19 GWAS meta-analysis. Analyses this time include severity, susceptibility and COVID-19 associated symptoms. Results are downloadable at https://www.covid19hg.org/results/r2/ As a reminder, these results are based on phenotype definition V1 and analysis plan V1 Thanks to early contributing…
May 15, 2020
The paper describing the initiative has been published on the European Journal of Human Genetics and available open access: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41431-020-0636-6
May 07, 2020
Webinar 2: 5/07/2020 4:00pm EDT / 8pm GMT / 9pm BST Agenda: Welcome & updates Speakers: Mark Daly (FIMM) & Andrea Ganna (FIMM) [Slides] Study curation & QC Speakers: Karolina Chwiałkowska (Medical University of Bialystok) & Margherita Francescatto (University of Trieste) [Slides] Ongoing studies and early results Speakers: Kári Stefánsson (deCODE) Alessandra Renieri (University of Siena) [Slides…
April 30, 2020
We have released the first round of meta-analysis results here. We want to thank the participating studies: - UK Biobank (analyzed by Danny Wilson, Konrad Karczewski, Tomoko Nakanishi and Manuel Rivas) - Finngen (analyzed by Juha Karjalainen) - Genes and Health (analyzed by David Van Heel) - Lifelines (analyzed by Patrick Deelen) - BioMe biobank (analyzed by Arden Moscati) Although we don’t pose…
April 20, 2020
The second call had more than 400 participants! Given the positive response during the call and multiple groups sharing early GWAS analyses on Slack, we aim to launch a first meta-analysis later this week. The broader analysis plan being developed is available here and we would expect to make available the first meta-analysis summary statistics immediately. We discuss two approaches in regards to…
April 17, 2020
9:00am EDT / 1pm GMT / 2pm BST Agenda: Welcome & updates (10min) Speakers: Mark Daly (FIMM); Andrea Ganna (FIMM) Data storage & sharing discussion (5min present; 10min Q&A) Speakers: Thomas Keane (EMBL-EBI); Anthony Philippakis (Broad Institute) For reference Data Sharing FAQ Phenotypes discussion (5min present; 25min Q&A) Speakers: Lea Davis (Vanderbilt); Mark Daly (FIMM) For reference…
April 09, 2020
There are more than 100 studies participating to the initiative and we have launched a now portal to allow exploring studies research questions and foster collaborations. Next week we will start distributing a pilot analysis plan.
March 30, 2020
On Friday, 27th of March we had the first call for data contributors. We have > 180 participants and very useful discussion. We are working on establishing a "matchmaking" area, where different study can connect to each other according to their research questions. We are also working on defining a set of core phenotypes to bring forward to discussion and analysis. We have established a new…
March 25, 2020
The new website is live with more information and a new updated map of the partners.
March 19, 2020
The collaboration with ICDA will help to reach the broad human genetics community and to organize the effort.
March 18, 2020
The Rivas lab is making available a github repository with several relevant human genetic resources: https://github.com/rivas-lab/covid19
March 18, 2020
Thanks to everyone for reaching out. We will organize soon a call with those interested in providing data.
March 16, 2020
University of Siena has received ethical approval for sample collection. For more informations visit the wesbite: https://sites.google.com/dbm.unisi.it/gen-covid