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Trainee Author: Luca Pagani, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow University of Cambridge Tracing the Route of Modern Humans out of Africa by Using 225 Human Genome Sequences from Ethiopians and Egyptians. Pagani, Luca et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 96, Issue 6, 986 – 991. This paper explores one of the early questions in... Read More
Media Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan ASHG Communications Manager 301.634.7346 press@ashg.org For Immediate Release Friday, October 9, 2015 4:45 pm U.S. Eastern Time (UTC-05:00) Findings Reported at ASHG 2015 Annual Meeting BETHESDA, MD – By combining genetic data, ancestry information, and electronic health records, scientists are able to identify neighborhood-level patterns of migration in the New York... Read More
Media Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan ASHG Communications Manager 301.634.7346 press@ashg.org For Immediate Release Saturday, October 18, 2014 6:00 pm U.S. Pacific Time (UTC-05:00) Findings Reported at ASHG 2014 Annual Meeting BETHESDA, MD – Human geneticists have discovered that a region of the genome associated with autism contains genetic variation that evolved in the last 250,000 years,... Read More
Media Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan ASHG Communications Manager 301.634.7346 press@ashg.org For Immediate Release Tuesday, October 14, 2014 12:00 pm U.S. Pacific Time (UTC-05:00) WHEN: Saturday through Wednesday, Oct. 18-22, 2014 WHERE: American Society of Human Genetics 2014 Annual Meeting San Diego Convention Center, 111 W. Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101 WHAT: Invited and platform (oral)... Read More
NEWS For more information: Cathy Yarbrough press@ashg.org Embargo: 4:30 p.m. PT, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 A consortium of scientists who are taking a novel approach in their research to detect the genetic variations that predispose individuals to type 2 diabetes provided an update of their findings at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2012... Read More