March 2024

Gautam Pandey, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Gautam Pandey

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? GP: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a silent epidemic, and 25% of Americans are affected by it. There are currently not any medications approved for this disease. This is partly because we poorly understand the genetic mechanisms associated with this disease.... Read More

Heather Wheeler, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Loyola University Chicago

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Heather Wheeler

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? HW: We know from eQTL studies that trans-acting loci tend to have smaller effect sizes than cis-acting loci. By aggregating cis-acting effects into one predicted expression level, as is done in the TWAS method PrediXcan, we had... Read More