Realizing the benefits of human genetics and genomics research for people everywhere.
By Christina Del Greco, BS/BA Happy (almost) New Year, ASHG members! With the start of a new year often come resolutions to start new or improve current habits. If your upcoming resolutions involve reading more books or listening to more podcasts, you’ve come to the right place. This year, we reached out to trainee ASHG... Read More
By Latrice Landry, PhD In-Sketch with Ninad Oak As members of the American Society of Human Genetics gathered for the 2022 Annual Conference in Los Angeles, the mark of the pandemic and its aftermath still lingered. This was the first time many members met in person—in general, many felt thrilled to once again experience this... Read More
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