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Santhosh Girirajan, MBBS, PhD, is a Professor of Genomics and the T. Ming Chu Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University.

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Santhosh Girirajan

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? SG: My lab has been studying the mechanisms underlying the variable expressivity of rare variants in complex disorders like autism and intellectual disability. We observed that affected children inheriting a variably expressive rare variant (such as 16p12.1... Read More

Inside <em>HGG Advances</em>: A Chat with Thales Nepomuceno

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Thales Nepomuceno

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: what motivated you to start working on this project? TN: I have been involved in several BRCA1-related projects and what has always driven me is the clinical consequences of identifying carriers of BRCA1 germline pathogenic variants. These individuals are at substantially higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer than... Read More

Ninad Oak, PhD, Chair of Digital Learning Committee

The ASHG Learning Center: Available Anytime, Anywhere

ASHG offers you a variety of digital programming year-round in the ASHG Learning Center. Home to the Society’s professional education and covering the latest science, insights into career development, and interactive technology workshops, the ASHG Learning Center delivers live and on-demand content for human genetics and genomics researchers year-round outside of the Annual Meeting. The... Read More