Publications & News

For Immediate Release: October 22, 2024, 10:00 am U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, 202-257-8424, press@ashg.org The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting will take place November 5-9, 2024 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colo. Credentialed members of the press and media are eligible to request complimentary press access to... Read More

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA:  What motivated you to start working on this project? ZL: Mendelian randomization (MR) is a powerful and increasingly popular tool for understanding the causal relationships between complex traits and diseases, especially with the growing availability of GWAS summary statistics. However, MR consistently faces the challenge of horizontal pleiotropy. While there... Read More

Posted By: Alyson Barnes, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG AB: What motivated you to start working on this project? KF: Our research group’s primary focus is to use artificial intelligence and deep learning-based approaches to study clinically-relevant genetics questions. This specific project is motivated by the rapid increase in the use of large language models (LLMs)... Read More

For Immediate Release: September 4, 2024, 11:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, (202) 257-8424, press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) announced today the election of Susan A. Slaugenhaupt, PhD as ASHG’s 2025 President-elect; and of Melinda C. Aldrich, PhD, MPH, Chester W. Brown, MD, PhD, and Beth A.... Read More

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA:  What motivated you to start working on this project? RMS: The traditional approach to using model organisms is to introduce disease-associated variants and test for disease mechanisms. We wanted to try to flip this paradigm around, using what we knew about the properties of pathogenic aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase (ARS) variants to... Read More