Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? RS: Questions surrounding psychiatric and community health have always been close to my heart. Before graduate school, I worked on an emergency room behavioral assessment team and volunteered as a crisis counselor, which helped me understand that it is impossible to... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? SA: This project grew naturally from our previous work showing that sensory and metabolic age-related hearing loss have distinct genetic profiles. We wanted to take the next step and ask whether these genetic differences could be... Read More
Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? CS: When Katrina Claw, PhD, and Randi Johnson, PhD, MPH, reached out about this project, I was excited to learn more about the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine Biobank on our campus. Being in the Claw lab, I have been part... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? KA: In the beginning I was really interested in characterizing Pilarowski-Björnsson Syndrome (PILBOS), as a recently identified genetic disorder. I was motivated by the open-ended potential for uncovering the biological mechanisms of the disorder and for... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? TT: This project started with a family affected by a rare X-linked recessive neurological disease where a genetic diagnosis had been pursued for many years. When I joined the project, the disease had recently been linked... Read More