23andMe Research Institute Attending NeurIPS 2025
This week the 23andMe Research Institute will be presenting work at NeurIPS 2025 (The 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems). This conference gives researchers a chance to learn about and share advances in machine learning and AI that can be critical for creating the complex predictive models that can assess a person’s susceptibility to diseases based on their DNA.
Current and former 23andMe Research Institute scientists will be presenting their work:
PRSformer: Disease Prediction from Million-Scale Individual Genotypes on Wed December 3rd between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. PST.
This paper describes the development of an advanced model that predicts 18 autoimmune and inflammatory conditions using nearly 140,000 genetic variants. The model was trained and validated on data from almost 5 million consented 23andMe research participants, and outperforms state-of-the-art methods when trained on the same data. These results highlight the power of 23andMe’s research platform and the scientists who transform that data into cutting-edge techniques and insights.
If you are attending NeurIPS 2025 stop by the session on December 3rd. Or if you want to dig into the details, you can read the preprint here.
