Trainee

Sarah A. Gagliano, ASHG: What is the focus of your research? Dr. Zeggini: My research uses large-scale biomedical data to identify genetic causes of complex traits, with a primary focus on musculoskeletal diseases and cardiometabolic traits. Our activities are underpinned by the development of methods to advance statistical genetics approaches. ASHG: What aspects of your... Read More

Trainee Author: Zafar Iqbal, PhD Researcher Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway (Photo courtesy Iqbal) Riazuddin S, Hussain M, Razzaq A, Iqbal Z, et al. Exome sequencing of Pakistani consanguineous families identifies 30 novel candidate genes for recessive intellectual disability. Molecular Psychiatry (2017) 22, 1604-1614 This multi-investigator exome sequencing project aims to discover pathogenic mutations for... Read More

Nascent Transcript Writer: Allison McCague May 2018  The second annual March for Science was held last month in Washington, DC, and many cities all around the world. The inaugural March for Science, held on a cold, rainy, and damp day, drew approximately 100,000 marchers to Washington in 2017, and over one million people participated in some sort... Read More

Written by Nascent Transcript writer Jennifer Zieba May 2018 The title PhD is awarded to a person who has received a Doctorate in Philosophy. I spent five and half years earning my PhD, but I came out of graduate school knowing more about vector cloning than I ever wanted and less about whether I should... Read More

  Trainee Author: Ryan Collins, AB PhD Candidate, Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics Harvard Medical School (Photo courtesy Collins) Collins RL et al. Defining the diverse spectrum of inversions, complex structural variation, and chromothripsis in the morbid human genome. Genome Biology. 2017 Mar 6; 18 (1): 36 This study expands our understanding of the... Read More