Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? KK: The initial motivation came from discussions with my advisor, Sebastian Zöllner, PhD, on imputing ancient DNA (aDNA) and whether meta-imputation would be the best way to leverage an aDNA reference panel. We are still working on that question, but... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? AV: There’s a statistical genetic technique called Mendelian randomization, which can very easily identify if there is a causal link between two traits, as long as there are genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics available for both of them.... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? KZ: It was the growing tension between conclusions from controlled lab experiments and the immense variability in inherited disease I encountered during my clinical training. During my PhD, I used gene editing to neatly isolate the effect size of... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? AM: During my undergraduate studies in Colombia, I started working on rare diseases, and we often found several patients carrying the exact same genetic variant. Several populations have experienced founder events, such as Quebec and Colombia.... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? ST: Previously, we proposed a haplotype-based scan for recent selection and validated the results in real data using known selected loci in European ancestry groups. We aimed to broaden our scope to more ancestry groups that are often underrepresented in human genetics studies. This objective required us to... Read More