Posted By: HGG Advances What motivated you to start working on this project? Over billions of years of evolution since their endosymbiotic origin, mitochondria have ceded the genetic code that controls most of their form and function to the nuclear genome. What was fascinating to me is that mitochondria retained a small circular genome (mtDNA)... Read More
Media Contact: Kara Flynn, 202.257.8424, press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Cinnamon Bloss, PhD, as the recipient of the 2022 Mentorship Award. Dr. Bloss is a tenured Professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at the University of California San Diego and the Founding... Read More
Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? JY: This project was motivated by my previous work about developing a Bayesian Functional GWAS (BFGWAS) method to account for non-overlapped categorical functional annotation for multivariate GWAS. Our previous work of the initial BFGWAS method has shown the advantages of accounting... Read More
The 10th anniversary of the Rally for Medical Research took place on September 14, 2022. ASHG is proud to have again sponsored this event on Capitol Hill, which brought together 250 participants from more than 30 states and Washington, D.C. to meet with 190 congressional offices. Science advocates were enthusiastic to return to the capital... Read More
Albert Hinman, PhD, joined as the 2022-2023 ASHG/NHGRI Genetics & Public Policy Fellow in August. ASHG and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) co-sponsor the Genetics & Public Policy Fellowship to give early-career professionals the opportunity to explore a career in science policy. We recently spoke with Dr. Hinman to learn more about how his background... Read More