The Fall 2018 ASHG Board Meeting occurred October 15-16 before the Annual Meeting in San Diego. In addition to oversight and financial management responsibilities, the Board continued setting course for ASHG’s growth and new directions to serve members and the field ever more effectively. Annual Meeting and AJHG Remain Vibrant Leaders in the Field Given its proximity... Read More
ASHG President David Nelson wrote in support of a U.S. bill to expand access to genetic counseling services for Medicare beneficiaries. Read More
Family reunification on the U.S.-Mexico border involved DNA testing, raising genetic privacy concerns. We thank Reps. Kaptur & Clark for addressing this issue. Read More
For Immediate Release Monday, November 26, 2018 1:30 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time Media Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan 301.634.7346 press@ashg.org Report from China, if Confirmed, Would Be at Odds with Field Consensus that Germline Editing is Not Ready for Human Use ROCKVILLE, Md. – Given this morning’s reports of infants possibly born in China whose genomes were... Read More
Trainee Author: Eirini Marouli, PhD Postdoctoral Research Associate William Harvey Research Institute Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary University of London (Photo courtesy Marouli) Marouli E, et al. Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height. Nature. 2017 Feb 9;542(7640):186-190 This paper greatly expands our understanding of the role... Read More
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