Presenting: ASHG 2018 Award Winners
ASHG is pleased to announce its 2018 awardees! Congrats to all recipients. Read More
Publications & News
ASHG Honors James R. Lupski with Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award
For Immediate Release Thursday, August 9, 2018 10:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Ann Klinck 301.634.7342 press@ashg.org Physician-Scientist to Receive Award at ASHG 2018 Annual Meeting ROCKVILLE, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named James R. Lupski, MD, PhD, as the 2018 recipient of the Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award.... Read More
Returning Individual Research Results to Participants: New NASEM Report
ASHG comments on a new NASEM report evaluating issues and perspectives surrounding return of individual-specific research results. Read More
Lifespan Prediction: The Interaction of Genes, Biomarkers and Zip Codes
Written by Nascent Transcript writer Sandra Smieszek August 2018 Longevity–an individual’s lifespan under ideal conditions–and healthy aging are among the most complex phenotypes studied to date. Human lifespan varies greatly, with life expectancy ranging from 47.5 in Sierra Leone to 79.8 in the United States and 87.2 years in Monaco. Currently, the world is home... Read More
GINA’s 10th Anniversary and the Future of Genetic Privacy
Written by Nascent Transcript writer Allison McCague August 2018 May 21 of this year marked the tenth anniversary of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), a landmark piece of legislation that Senator Ted Kennedy—one of the sponsors of the bill—called “the first civil rights bill of the new century of the life sciences.” GINA’s passage was the... Read More