HGGA

Moran Gershoni, PhD is a Principal Investigator at the ARO-Volcani Institute.

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Moran Gershoni

Posted By: HGG Advances  HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project?   MG: My interest in this project started with an evolutionary question: why is the prevalence of some so-called ‘unfit’ traits sometimes higher than expected? Nearly 15% of human couples ask for medical assistance to achieve a healthy pregnancy, and many will... Read More

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Daffodil Canson

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Daffodil Canson

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? DC: I have a long-standing interest in studying variant effects on gene expression and protein function and in unravelling the molecular mechanisms of disease-associated variants. As part of my PhD project, I developed the SpliceAI-10k calculator, a SpliceAI-based splicing prediction tool... Read More

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Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Lerato Majara

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? LM: Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have been a hot topic in the field of complex disorders for several years now, and they continue to be topical as new methods and datasets emerge to aid in improving the prediction accuracy of these... Read More

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Get to Know HGG Advances: Spotlight on HGG Advances Editors

At HGG Advances, the newest and fully open access ASHG journal, the Editorial Board oversees all aspects of the review process. This team of academic editors brings a wealth of scientific expertise and experience to the journal that ensures fair and constructive evaluation of each submitted manuscript. They work with authors throughout each step of... Read More

Sofia Papadimitriou is an F.R.S.-FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Sofia Papadimitriou

Posted By: HGG Advances  HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project?   SP: I always had an interest in the field of medical genetics, and oligogenic diseases specifically intrigue me because of their challenging nature, as even after years of research since their first official reporting in the early 1990s, our knowledge on... Read More

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