COVID-19

First Results of COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative Study  Announced at ASHG 2020 Virtual Meeting

First Results of COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative Study Announced at ASHG 2020 Virtual Meeting

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 5:45 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, 202.257.8424, press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD — The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis. Insights into why some people develop more severe symptoms than others and how to better treat the disease are desperately needed. The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative was created to study... Read More

Genetics and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Genetics and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 5:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, 202.257.8424, press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD — With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging worldwide, members of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) are working to understand how the virus spreads and infects people, why there is so much variability in susceptibility and severity, and where... Read More

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Heather Mefford

Each month, the editors of The American Journal of Human Genetics interview an author of a recently published paper. This month, we check in with Heather Mefford to discuss her paper, “Biallelic loss-of-function variants in NUP188 cause a recognizable syndrome characterized by neurologic, ocular and cardiac abnormalities”. 1. What caused you to start working on... Read More

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