Realizing the benefits of human genetics and genomics research for people everywhere.
On September 25, ASHG hosted a virtual Forum with several members of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing. The Forum was chaired by Charles Rotimi of NIH, and speakers shared findings from the Commission’s final report on Heritable Human Genome Editing (HHGE), which was released earlier that month. The... Read More
Author: Marcos Araújo Castro e Silva, M.Sc., B.Sc Ph.D. Candidate Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology Institute of Biosciences University of São Paulo (Photo courtesy Castro e Silva) Castro e Silva MA, et al. Genomic insight into the origins and dispersal of the Brazilian coastal natives. 2019 PNAS. Feb 4;117(5):2372-2377 The indigenous populations of the... Read More
Posted By: Sarah Ratzel, PhD, Science Editor, AJHG Each month, the editors of The American Journal of Human Genetics interview an author(s) of a recently published paper. This month, we check in with Kyle Brothers and John Lynch to discuss their paper, “Analogies in Genomics Policymaking: Debates and Drawbacks”. AJHG: What caused you to start... Read More
Published: Thursday, October 29, 2020, 10:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, 202.257.8424, press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD — An international team of researchers who identified genetic variants associated with reproductive success say their findings could highlight mechanisms underlying fertility and infertility. In addition, their analyses detected genetic alleles under present-day selection, providing an insight into the... Read More
Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 5:45 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, 202.257.8424, press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD — The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis. Insights into why some people develop more severe symptoms than others and how to better treat the disease are desperately needed. The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative was created to study... Read More