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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

Vamsee Pillalamarri is a graduate student in Human Genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Vamsee Pillalamarri

Posted By: HGG Advances What motivated you to start working on this project? Over billions of years of evolution since their endosymbiotic origin, mitochondria have ceded the genetic code that controls most of their form and function to the nuclear genome. What was fascinating to me is that mitochondria retained a small circular genome (mtDNA)... Read More

New Report Examines Diversity in the Human Genetics and Genomics Workforce

New Report Examines Diversity in the Human Genetics and Genomics Workforce

For Immediate Release: Thursday, November 10, 2022, 10:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, (202) 257-8424,  press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD –The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) today released the Human Genetics & Genomics Workforce Survey Report, which takes an in-depth look at the field’s workforce demographics, including race, ethnicity, or ancestry; gender identity; sexual... Read More

Jingjing Yang, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Human Genetics at the Emory University School of Medicine and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health.

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Jingjing Yang

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project?   JY: This project was motivated by my previous work about developing a Bayesian Functional GWAS (BFGWAS) method to account for non-overlapped categorical functional annotation for multivariate GWAS. Our previous work of the initial BFGWAS method has shown the advantages of accounting... Read More

ASHG 2022 in Los Angeles Brings Together Researchers from Around the World to Advance Discoveries in Genetics, Genomics Research

ASHG 2022 in Los Angeles Brings Together Researchers from Around the World to Advance Discoveries in Genetics, Genomics Research

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 10:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, (202) 257-8424,  press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD–Thousands of human genomics and genetics researchers, clinicians, counselors, public health experts and others will attend the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) in Los Angeles, California, October 25-29. Journalists covering ASHG... Read More

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