Bjarke Feenstra
@bfeenstra.bsky.social
Genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics. #pregnancy #febrile seizures #pyloric stenosis. Group leader at Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen. Views are my own.
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An atlas of transcriptional dynamics in maternal blood over the course of healthy pregnancy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.30.715300v1
April 2, 2026 at 1:37 AM
An atlas of transcriptional dynamics in maternal blood over the course of healthy pregnancy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.30.715300v1
🚨 New preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We studied the dynamics of maternal gene expression over the course of healthy pregnancy based on weekly samples 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We studied the dynamics of maternal gene expression over the course of healthy pregnancy based on weekly samples 👇
www.biorxiv.org
April 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
🚨 New preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We studied the dynamics of maternal gene expression over the course of healthy pregnancy based on weekly samples 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We studied the dynamics of maternal gene expression over the course of healthy pregnancy based on weekly samples 👇
Reposted by Bjarke Feenstra
📣📣📣 We are excited to announce a Postdoc position at the University of Gothenburg using pregnancy on-a-chip systems!
We are looking for a motivated candidate to push our efforts in moving from genetic discoveries to biological insights in preterm birth 👶
📅 Deadline 22 Feb 2026
We are looking for a motivated candidate to push our efforts in moving from genetic discoveries to biological insights in preterm birth 👶
📅 Deadline 22 Feb 2026
Postdoctoral fellow in Perinatal medical research - Gothenburg (Kommun), Västra Götaland (SE) job with University of Gothenburg | 12853219
The Institute of Clinical Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology, is seeking a Postdoctor for perinatal medical wet and dry lab research.
www.nature.com
February 3, 2026 at 7:58 PM
📣📣📣 We are excited to announce a Postdoc position at the University of Gothenburg using pregnancy on-a-chip systems!
We are looking for a motivated candidate to push our efforts in moving from genetic discoveries to biological insights in preterm birth 👶
📅 Deadline 22 Feb 2026
We are looking for a motivated candidate to push our efforts in moving from genetic discoveries to biological insights in preterm birth 👶
📅 Deadline 22 Feb 2026
📣 🧬🦠 New article out on genetic susceptibility to infection with Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2. In this international GWAS meta-analysis, we identified loci not found for earlier variants of the virus. The findings point to a central role of glycosylation.
👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Central role of glycosylation processes in human genetic susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infections with Omicron variants - Nature Genetics
Genome-wide analyses identify 13 loci associated with susceptibility to infection with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants, including variation in ST6GAL1, previously associated with influenza susceptibility,...
www.nature.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:39 AM
📣 🧬🦠 New article out on genetic susceptibility to infection with Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2. In this international GWAS meta-analysis, we identified loci not found for earlier variants of the virus. The findings point to a central role of glycosylation.
👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🧵 New paper out in PLoS Medicine ( doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004657 ):
Are common infections during pregnancy harmful to a child’s long-term cognitive outcomes?
We looked at over 250,000 full-siblings to find out.
Thread with explanation blow 👇
Are common infections during pregnancy harmful to a child’s long-term cognitive outcomes?
We looked at over 250,000 full-siblings to find out.
Thread with explanation blow 👇
scholar.google.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🧵 New paper out in PLoS Medicine ( doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004657 ):
Are common infections during pregnancy harmful to a child’s long-term cognitive outcomes?
We looked at over 250,000 full-siblings to find out.
Thread with explanation blow 👇
Are common infections during pregnancy harmful to a child’s long-term cognitive outcomes?
We looked at over 250,000 full-siblings to find out.
Thread with explanation blow 👇
🧬🤰Still 2 weeks left to apply for this unique PhD fellowship in the genetics of fetal growth 👇👇
📢 We’re hiring a PhD Fellow 📢
Genetics of fetal and placental growth using measures derived from ultrasound imaging in pregnancy.
Co-supervised by Simon Rasmussen (CBMR, @cbmr.science) and me (SSI, @ssi-dk.bsky.social).
Start: Oct 1, 2025
Deadline: July 24, 2025
📎 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
Genetics of fetal and placental growth using measures derived from ultrasound imaging in pregnancy.
Co-supervised by Simon Rasmussen (CBMR, @cbmr.science) and me (SSI, @ssi-dk.bsky.social).
Start: Oct 1, 2025
Deadline: July 24, 2025
📎 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
PhD fellowship in the genetics of growth and development in pregnancy in the Rasmussen Group
employment.ku.dk
July 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
🧬🤰Still 2 weeks left to apply for this unique PhD fellowship in the genetics of fetal growth 👇👇
📢 We’re hiring a PhD Fellow 📢
Genetics of fetal and placental growth using measures derived from ultrasound imaging in pregnancy.
Co-supervised by Simon Rasmussen (CBMR, @cbmr.science) and me (SSI, @ssi-dk.bsky.social).
Start: Oct 1, 2025
Deadline: July 24, 2025
📎 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
Genetics of fetal and placental growth using measures derived from ultrasound imaging in pregnancy.
Co-supervised by Simon Rasmussen (CBMR, @cbmr.science) and me (SSI, @ssi-dk.bsky.social).
Start: Oct 1, 2025
Deadline: July 24, 2025
📎 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
PhD fellowship in the genetics of growth and development in pregnancy in the Rasmussen Group
employment.ku.dk
June 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
📢 We’re hiring a PhD Fellow 📢
Genetics of fetal and placental growth using measures derived from ultrasound imaging in pregnancy.
Co-supervised by Simon Rasmussen (CBMR, @cbmr.science) and me (SSI, @ssi-dk.bsky.social).
Start: Oct 1, 2025
Deadline: July 24, 2025
📎 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
Genetics of fetal and placental growth using measures derived from ultrasound imaging in pregnancy.
Co-supervised by Simon Rasmussen (CBMR, @cbmr.science) and me (SSI, @ssi-dk.bsky.social).
Start: Oct 1, 2025
Deadline: July 24, 2025
📎 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
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This is VERY big genetics & health news, Regeneron (Pharmaceutical company with v strong genetics in medicine arm) is going to buy 23andme. investor.regeneron.com/news-release...
investor.regeneron.com
May 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This is VERY big genetics & health news, Regeneron (Pharmaceutical company with v strong genetics in medicine arm) is going to buy 23andme. investor.regeneron.com/news-release...
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📢 Applications open for the SMARTbiomed Summer School!
🧠 Learn Causal Inference, Statistical Genetics & ML in R
📍 June 23–27 at the stunning Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark
⏳ Apply by April 19 — limited spots available!
👩🔬 For PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers
🔗 smartbiomed.dk/news-and-eve...
🧠 Learn Causal Inference, Statistical Genetics & ML in R
📍 June 23–27 at the stunning Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark
⏳ Apply by April 19 — limited spots available!
👩🔬 For PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers
🔗 smartbiomed.dk/news-and-eve...
https://smartbiomed.dk/news-and-event…
April 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
📢 Applications open for the SMARTbiomed Summer School!
🧠 Learn Causal Inference, Statistical Genetics & ML in R
📍 June 23–27 at the stunning Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark
⏳ Apply by April 19 — limited spots available!
👩🔬 For PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers
🔗 smartbiomed.dk/news-and-eve...
🧠 Learn Causal Inference, Statistical Genetics & ML in R
📍 June 23–27 at the stunning Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark
⏳ Apply by April 19 — limited spots available!
👩🔬 For PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers
🔗 smartbiomed.dk/news-and-eve...
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Demonstration i solidaritet med Grønland på Lørdag kl. 12:00 foran den amerikanske ambassade. Håber at vi er mange der dukker op. #dkpol #dkmedier
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March 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Demonstration i solidaritet med Grønland på Lørdag kl. 12:00 foran den amerikanske ambassade. Håber at vi er mange der dukker op. #dkpol #dkmedier
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Great effort by recently minted PhD Niklas Andersson (not on Bluesky) at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen. His thesis was on thiazide induced hyponatremia (TIH), low plasma sodium as a potential adverse reaction to use of thiazide diuretics. This paper investigates the genetics of TIH.
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Genetic regulation of plasma sodium concentration is variable and pathways involving the pituitary gland have an important role. There is no evidence of genetic predisposition for the plasma sodium-lowering effect of thiazides. bit.ly/JASN0622
#ASNJASN
#BasicResearch
#ASNJASN
#BasicResearch
March 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Great effort by recently minted PhD Niklas Andersson (not on Bluesky) at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen. His thesis was on thiazide induced hyponatremia (TIH), low plasma sodium as a potential adverse reaction to use of thiazide diuretics. This paper investigates the genetics of TIH.
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Science Pays, Science Saves. Defend It, Fund It. #StandUpForScience
March 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Science Pays, Science Saves. Defend It, Fund It. #StandUpForScience
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ESHG Abstract Deadline Reminder!
The Submission Deadline for #ESHG2025 is in a week (Jan 30)!
Please join us this spring (May 24-27) in Milan, Italy, for another fun and exciting ESHG conference!
Learn more at 2025.eshg.org
Please retweet.
#Genetics #ScienceConference #ESHG #ESHG2025
The Submission Deadline for #ESHG2025 is in a week (Jan 30)!
Please join us this spring (May 24-27) in Milan, Italy, for another fun and exciting ESHG conference!
Learn more at 2025.eshg.org
Please retweet.
#Genetics #ScienceConference #ESHG #ESHG2025
January 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
ESHG Abstract Deadline Reminder!
The Submission Deadline for #ESHG2025 is in a week (Jan 30)!
Please join us this spring (May 24-27) in Milan, Italy, for another fun and exciting ESHG conference!
Learn more at 2025.eshg.org
Please retweet.
#Genetics #ScienceConference #ESHG #ESHG2025
The Submission Deadline for #ESHG2025 is in a week (Jan 30)!
Please join us this spring (May 24-27) in Milan, Italy, for another fun and exciting ESHG conference!
Learn more at 2025.eshg.org
Please retweet.
#Genetics #ScienceConference #ESHG #ESHG2025
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The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed will leverage large-scale, multimodal biomedical data combined with focused innovation in statistical and computational methods including machine learning to advance our understanding, treatment, and prevention of human disease.
Learn more about us: smartbiomed.dk
Learn more about us: smartbiomed.dk
The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed
The Pioneer Centre is anchored at Aarhus University and will be a collaboration of researchers from Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, and University of Oxford.
smartbiomed.dk
January 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed will leverage large-scale, multimodal biomedical data combined with focused innovation in statistical and computational methods including machine learning to advance our understanding, treatment, and prevention of human disease.
Learn more about us: smartbiomed.dk
Learn more about us: smartbiomed.dk
Christmas time, board game time!
December 25, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Christmas time, board game time!
New preprint out on genetic susceptibility to infection with Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2. International GWAS meta-analysis discovers loci not found for earlier variants of the virus and indicates central role of glycosylation.
👇
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
👇
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Central role of glycosylation processes in human genetic susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infections with Omicron variants
The host genetics of SARS-CoV-2 has previously been studied based on cases from the earlier waves of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, identifying 51 genomic loci associated with infection and/or severit...
www.medrxiv.org
November 22, 2024 at 2:59 PM
New preprint out on genetic susceptibility to infection with Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2. International GWAS meta-analysis discovers loci not found for earlier variants of the virus and indicates central role of glycosylation.
👇
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
👇
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Bjarke Feenstra
Central role of glycosylation processes in human genetic susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infections with Omicron variants https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.24317689v1
Central role of glycosylation processes in human genetic susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infections with Omicron variants https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.24317689v1
The host genetics of SARS-CoV-2 has previously been studied based on cases from the earlier waves of
www.medrxiv.org
November 22, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Central role of glycosylation processes in human genetic susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infections with Omicron variants https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.24317689v1
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A little bit late to the party, but our project on the genetics of neonatal jaundice has been finally published 👶
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's a neat story and a rollercoster of unexpected findings 🤓🤓
How do the genetics of neonatal jaundice differentiate from those of adult bilirubin?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's a neat story and a rollercoster of unexpected findings 🤓🤓
How do the genetics of neonatal jaundice differentiate from those of adult bilirubin?
Genome-wide analyses of neonatal jaundice reveal a marked departure from adult bilirubin metabolism - Nature Communications
The underlying causes of neonatal jaundice are not well understood. Here, the authors identify genetic variants associated with neonatal jaundice, including a variant in the gene UGT1A, finding a dist...
www.nature.com
September 29, 2024 at 6:20 PM
A little bit late to the party, but our project on the genetics of neonatal jaundice has been finally published 👶
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's a neat story and a rollercoster of unexpected findings 🤓🤓
How do the genetics of neonatal jaundice differentiate from those of adult bilirubin?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's a neat story and a rollercoster of unexpected findings 🤓🤓
How do the genetics of neonatal jaundice differentiate from those of adult bilirubin?
All set for some interesting weekend reading 🌱
September 6, 2024 at 5:36 PM
All set for some interesting weekend reading 🌱
Reposted by Bjarke Feenstra
Led by @polsolenavais.bsky.social & BoJacobsson: "Genome-wide analyses of neonatal jaundice reveal a marked departure from adult bilirubin metabolism". Contributed with Hakon Hakonarson & @jonathanbradfield.bsky.social locally.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genome-wide analyses of neonatal jaundice reveal a marked departure from adult bilirubin metabolism - Nature Communications
The underlying causes of neonatal jaundice are not well understood. Here, the authors identify genetic variants associated with neonatal jaundice, including a variant in the gene UGT1A, finding a dist...
www.nature.com
September 6, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Led by @polsolenavais.bsky.social & BoJacobsson: "Genome-wide analyses of neonatal jaundice reveal a marked departure from adult bilirubin metabolism". Contributed with Hakon Hakonarson & @jonathanbradfield.bsky.social locally.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazing methods-oriented PIONEER center of Biomedicine launching in DK and UK, led by Naomi Wray, @ceclindgren.bsky.social @bvilhjal.bsky.social Preben Bo Mortensen, Erin Gabriel, Chris Holmes, Peter Visscher
SMARTbiomed Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration smartbiomed.dk about to launch led by Naomi Wray. Lots of positions! Great opportunity to join Oxford Big Data Institute bdi.ox.ac.uk
Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in groups Holmes, Visscher, Evans,etc, Denmark ads soon.
Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in groups Holmes, Visscher, Evans,etc, Denmark ads soon.
The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed
The Pioneer Centre is anchored at Aarhus University and will be a collaboration of researchers from Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, and University of Oxford.
smartbiomed.dk
July 3, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Amazing methods-oriented PIONEER center of Biomedicine launching in DK and UK, led by Naomi Wray, @ceclindgren.bsky.social @bvilhjal.bsky.social Preben Bo Mortensen, Erin Gabriel, Chris Holmes, Peter Visscher
Reposted by Bjarke Feenstra
SMARTbiomed Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration smartbiomed.dk about to launch led by Naomi Wray. Lots of positions! Great opportunity to join Oxford Big Data Institute bdi.ox.ac.uk
Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in groups Holmes, Visscher, Evans,etc, Denmark ads soon.
Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in groups Holmes, Visscher, Evans,etc, Denmark ads soon.
The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed
The Pioneer Centre is anchored at Aarhus University and will be a collaboration of researchers from Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, and University of Oxford.
smartbiomed.dk
July 2, 2024 at 6:02 PM
SMARTbiomed Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration smartbiomed.dk about to launch led by Naomi Wray. Lots of positions! Great opportunity to join Oxford Big Data Institute bdi.ox.ac.uk
Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in groups Holmes, Visscher, Evans,etc, Denmark ads soon.
Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in groups Holmes, Visscher, Evans,etc, Denmark ads soon.