Posted By: Sara Cullinan, PhD, Deputy Editor, AJHG SC: What motivated you to start working on this project? JV: I have worked on HERG potassium channels for >20 years. Initially I just wanted to understand why these channels have such unusual properties compared to other potassium channels. As part of this work, I studied the... Read More
Posted By: Sara Cullinan, PhD, Deputy Editor, AJHG SC: What motivated you to start working on this project? AS: I’ve been interested in wacky bits of the genome for a long time. I actually remember way back in 2004 when as a postdoc with Evan Eichler we first started getting data from early array CGH... Read More
Posted By: Sara Cullinan, PhD, Deputy Editor, AJHG SC: What motivated you to start working on this project? AM: This project grew out of synergy with a few of our existing collaborations and the confluence of those lines of research. We have been working with Haky Im over the past few years on application of... Read More
Posted By: Sara Cullinan, PhD, Deputy Editor, AJHG SC: What motivated you to start working on this project?s SR: The seeds of this project were actually planted in 2009 when I gave a seminar at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and learned about work they were doing on differential relapse rates for children with acute... Read More
Posted By: Sara Cullinan, PhD, Deputy Editor, AJHG SC: What prompted you to start working on this project? MN: I think that de novo mutations (DNMs) are completely fascinating: they can be used to make historical inferences about how our species has evolved over time and they also serve as a lens into how humans are changing... Read More
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