SIMBA+: Dissecting Genetic Variant Function Through Single-Cell Multiomics Integration

June 03, 2026
Single-Cell Stage
  • The challenge of translating GWAS findings into variant mechanisms and cellular contexts 
  • SIMBA+: a probabilistic graph framework integrating single-cell multiomics with genetic association data 
  • Case study: how disease variants regulate immune genes in specific cell populations (atopic dermatitis) 
  • Benchmarking against existing methods, including validation with eQTLs and CRISPR data 
  • Heritability decomposition at single-cell resolution across 75 complex traits and 19 tissues 
Speakers
Luca Pinello
Luca Pinello, Associate Professor - Massachusetts General Hospital