Careers & Learning

Samuel Smith, PhD, Brown University Enrichment analyses identify shared associations for 25 quantitative traits in over 600,000 individuals from seven diverse ancestries Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Arbel Harpak Lab – University of Texas at Austin ASHG: Can you describe the type of research that has your primary focus? Samuel Smith: My research focuses on developing... Read More

By Nandana Rao, PhD Since becoming a graduate student, I haven’t had the chance to attend an in-person ASHG annual meeting before. I was looking forward to attending ASHG 2022 after the virtual meetings in 2020 and 2021. I had no real sense of the scale of the meeting going in, but when I entered... Read More

Shawn Fayer, MS, CGC, PhD candidate, University of Washington Closing the gap: Systematic integration of multiplexed functional data resolves variants of uncertain significance in BRCA1, TP53, and PTEN  Position: PhD Candidate – University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences  ASHG: Can you describe the type of research that has your primary focus?   Shawn Fayer: My... Read More

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What prompted you to start working on this project?  SR: When discussing the potential clinical utility of polygenic risk scores, a typical question from the audience is, “Why bother testing your genetic risk profile when the role of genetic risk can simply be measured using a... Read More

Posted By: HGG Advances What motivated you to start working on this project? Over billions of years of evolution since their endosymbiotic origin, mitochondria have ceded the genetic code that controls most of their form and function to the nuclear genome. What was fascinating to me is that mitochondria retained a small circular genome (mtDNA)... Read More