ASHG News
Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Diptavo Dutta
Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? DD: The scientific motivation of this work was to investigate, for diseases, whether there are tissues beyond the obvious candidates where genes might manifest associations, and if so, can we interpret such findings from an etiologic viewpoint. The statistical method is... Read More
Inside AJHG: A Chat with Yun Li and Quan Sun
Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? YL and QS: Genotype imputation is a standard practice but not all variants can be well imputed. State-of-the-art approaches perform poorly for low frequency variants (LFVs) and rare variants (RVs), either removing well-imputed variants or failing to... Read More
ASHG Announces 2024 Winners of DNA Day Essay Contest
A Record Number of Submissions
For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, 202.257.8424, press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD – As part of its celebration of National DNA Day, the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) today announced the winners of its 2024 DNA Day Essay Contest, which encourages high school students and teachers worldwide to learn about human... Read More
2024 DNA Day Essay Contest Winners
Congratulations to our winners and thank you to all who participated. Happy DNA Day! 2024 Winners 1st Place: Megan Xie, Grade 12 Teacher: Mrs. Margot Bram School: Lower Moreland High School Location: Huntingdon Vy, Pennsylvania 2nd Place: Macey Hunter, Grade 12 Teacher: Ms. Cameron Simpkins School: Fayetteville High School Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas 3rd Place: Justin Lin, Grade 11 Teacher: Ms. Kailin... Read More