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Mar 03, 2026 Our preprint on Constructing a Literature-Derived Database for Benchmarking Polygenic Risk Score Construction Methods with Ranking Inferences is now available on medRxiv.
Sep 30, 2025 Dr. Jin received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS) on Statistical methods and tools for enhancing polygenic risk prediction and discovery of causal gene pathways.
Sep 30, 2025 Our paper on Constructing Genetic Risk Scores: Robust Bayesian Approach through Projected Summary Statistics and Flexible Shrinkage) was published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Jan 25, 2025 PennPRS version 1.0.0 is now available online. Preprint
Sep 04, 2024 Dr. Jin was awarded a three-year Innovation Award to establish the Penn Center for Eye-Brain Health (PennEBH) from the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB) at Penn Medicine.
Apr 10, 2024 Our paper on MUSSEL, a method for developing enhanced ancestry-specific polygenic risk score, is now available on Cell Genomics.
Mar 15, 2024 Our paper on MRLE: Mendelian randomization analysis using multiple biomarkers of an underlying common exposure, was published in Biostatistics.