February 2018

For Immediate Release Tuesday, February 13, 2018 12:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan ASHG Director of Communications & Marketing 301.634.7346 press@ashg.org BETHESDA, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is disappointed by the Administration’s proposed Fiscal Year 2019 National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget released yesterday. This budget would impose... Read More

ASHG thanks Congress for strong bipartisan support of NIH, urges sustained investment For Immediate Release Monday, March 11, 2019 4:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time ROCKVILLE, Md. – The American Society of Human Genetics today expressed deep disappointment at the administration’s budget proposal for medical research released today, noting that the cuts would significantly slow new... Read More

What's it like to be a DNA Day essay judge? Dennis Drayna shares his experience, including observations on STEM's future and the changing role of Wikipedia. Read More

Trainee Author: Gaia Andreoletti, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Brenner Lab) University of California, Berkeley (Photo courtesy Andreoletti) Shinichi Takahashi†, Gaia Andreoletti†, et al. De novo and rare mutations in the HSPA1L heat shock gene associated with inflammatory bowel disease. Genome Med. 2017; 9(1):8. This study provides important insights into the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease... Read More

Written by Nascent Transcript writer Sarah A. Gagliano, PhD February 2018  A publicly available resource of half a million individuals with genetic data, and thousands of diverse phenotypes, is a worthy cause for celebration in the genetic research community. The UK Biobank is currently the largest genotyped prospective cohort available to researchers worldwide. For those... Read More