David Zhang @dzcoder2428
MD/PhD Student @PennMedicine | biomedical informatics and computational genetics | Penn Med Symphony Orchestra Joined August 2021-
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Brothers Daniel & David Zhang followed similar paths in medicine & music at @PennMedicine & @PennMedSymphony. A new philanthropic gift from @bjgmd (@PennCardiology) aims to recognize & amplify their efforts tinyurl.com/mr3x8fay
ft. K. Cardone, @dzcoder2428, @tsao_noah, @sabramowitz_, P. Sharma, J. DePaolo, M. Conery, @hoffmanandrews, R. Judy, @noshreza, @5inghalp, @ThePMBioBank, Z. Arany, @tcappola1, S. Day, @tikuowens, @danrader333 @MarylynRitchie @bvoight28 M. Levin & @damrauer nature.com/articles/s4158…
Join @PennMedSymphony this Saturday, 4/19 at 8pm in Irvine Auditorium for a free evening of music featuring works from Bernstein, Borodin, Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky! Learn more & register➡️ lu.ma/hulox63l
Leveraging the diversity of the Penn Medicine Biobank, @dzcoder2428 and colleagues identify an APOL3 variant associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) risk. @PennMedicine
Penn Medicine BioBank: Diversity is Key to Better Understand Genetic Risk for Kidney Disease (insight.jci.org/articles/view/…) In the Penn Medicine BioBank, the stop-gain variant rs1108978 in APOL3 is significantly associated with increased risk for chronic kidney disease.
Concert this Saturday, 8pm in Irvine Auditorium! Free to attend, no tickets required! pennmedsymphony.com #concert #orchestra #viola #pennmedicine #pennmedsymphony
Sharing this in case it's useful: I find that students often have a hard time conceptualizing quantitative parameters in genomics and popgen Here's a cheat-sheet I put together for teaching. It's also part of a textbook I have been writing on human genetics (more on that below)

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