AJHG

Renee Geck, PhD

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Renee Geck

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What prompted you to start working on this project?  RG: I needed to find some G6PD variants with a range of activities for an experiment I was planning. As I was reading the literature, I was finding reviews and following the trails back to the original... Read More

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Paul Lockhart, PhD

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Paul Lockhart, PhD

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? PL: My background is the study of the causes and mechanisms of neurogenetic conditions. A part of this has been the identification of novel genetic mechanisms causing ataxia, a condition where individuals have impaired balance and coordination.... Read More

Recognizing Early-Career Excellence at the ASHG Journals

Sara Cullinan, PhD, Director of Scientific Publications Many ASHG members are familiar with the Cotterman Award, an honor bestowed each year to the trainee authors whose work published in The American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG) is noted for exceptional quality. This year, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances (HGG Advances) introduced the Early-Career Investigator Award... Read More

Samuli Ripatti, PhD is a Professor of Biometry in the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland at the University of Helsinki.

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Samuli Ripatti

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What prompted you to start working on this project?  SR: When discussing the potential clinical utility of polygenic risk scores, a typical question from the audience is, “Why bother testing your genetic risk profile when the role of genetic risk can simply be measured using a... Read More

Xiaoquan (William) Wen, PhD is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics at the University of Michigan.

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Xiaoquan (William) Wen

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? WW: This project is motivated by our long-term interest in understanding the molecular mechanisms of complex diseases using genetic data. In the past few years, we have witnessed many successes in gaining biological insights by combining molecular... Read More

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