Legislation Funding NIH Also Protects Genetic Privacy of Vulnerable Families
Family reunification on the U.S.-Mexico border involved DNA testing, raising genetic privacy concerns. We thank Reps. Kaptur & Clark for addressing this issue. Read More
November 2018
ASHG Reaffirms 2017 Position Statement on Germline Genome Editing
For Immediate Release Monday, November 26, 2018 1:30 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time Media Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan 301.634.7346 press@ashg.org Report from China, if Confirmed, Would Be at Odds with Field Consensus that Germline Editing is Not Ready for Human Use ROCKVILLE, Md. – Given this morning’s reports of infants possibly born in China whose genomes were... Read More
Trainee Paper Spotlight: Eirini Marouli
Trainee Author: Eirini Marouli, PhD Postdoctoral Research Associate William Harvey Research Institute Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary University of London (Photo courtesy Marouli) Marouli E, et al. Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height. Nature. 2017 Feb 9;542(7640):186-190 This paper greatly expands our understanding of the role... Read More
Build a Cohesive and Competitive Invited Workshop: Here’s How
Get your Invited Workshop proposal accepted: Tips from Program Committee Chair Kiran Musunuru. Read More
Inside AJHG: A Chat with Jonathan Mill
This month on Inside AJHG: Jonathan Mill describes his new findings on using mQTLs to study the mechanisms underpinning transcriptional regulation. Read More