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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 Issues New Guidance Addressing Underrepresentation in Genomics Research Through Community Engagement

ASHG Issues New Guidance Addressing Underrepresentation in Genomics Research Through Community Engagement

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) today published a new Guidance on community engagement as a strategy to address underrepresentation in genomics research. Appearing in today’s issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG), this new resource was developed by the Society’s Community Engagement Guidance Writing Group, comprised of members of the ASHG... Read More

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Emil Jørsboe

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Emil Jørsboe

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project?   EJ: I wanted to obtain further insights into the genetics of the Greenlandic population, as it is a genetically unique and understudied population. Specifically, we sought to look further into a range of cardiometabolic phenotypes. The end goal was to improve... Read More

Washington Update: ARPA-H Organizational Structure Established; Initial Leadership Positions Filled

The biomedical research system has historically been supported by two main pillars: fundamental research on the mechanisms of disease, largely funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the pharmaceutical industry, which creates products to treat these conditions. Recent advances in biomedical research and health sciences present an opportunity to change how we understand,... Read More