Genome Editing

On September 25, ASHG hosted a virtual Forum with several members of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing. The Forum was chaired by Charles Rotimi of NIH, and speakers shared findings from the Commission’s final report on Heritable Human Genome Editing (HHGE), which was released earlier that month. The... Read More

I am delighted to announce that ASHG’s statement on germline genome editing was published today in The American Journal of Human Genetics. This statement, written by a workgroup co-led by Kelly Ormond and Doug Mortlock and approved by ASHG’s Board of Directors, gives the Society’s perspective on the use of CRISPR/Cas9 or other similar tools... Read More