Realizing the benefits of human genetics and genomics research for people everywhere.
Following discussion at its spring meeting on awards names and the need to recognize, celebrate and cultivate attributes that are central to ASHG’s mission, ASHG is formalizing this goal through new award names that will now be descriptive, without an individual’s name attached. While the discussion was sparked initially by the Board of Directors’ actions... Read More
The celebration of ASHG’s 75-year anniversary is fast approaching at this year’s annual meeting! The Society is thrilled to be in Washington, DC for our 74th Annual Meeting. DC is one of the finest destinations for scientific research in the world with many universities and institutions with outstanding genetic and genomic research, including the National... Read More
On April 13 -15, ASHG, in collaboration with NHGRI, hosted the first Human Genetics Scholars Initiative (HGSI) Spring Meeting in Rockville, MD, welcoming twenty scholars from across all four cohorts. The meeting featured an interactive, facilitated workshop entitled, From Vision to Reality: Building the Field You Want to See, a half-day special visit to the... Read More
Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? LS: Since the Wise et al., AJHG 2013 eXclusion report ten years ago that documented that the X chromosome was typically excluded from GWAS, my lab has been thinking about developing statistical methods for the X chromosome,... Read More
Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? MG: My interest in this project started with an evolutionary question: why is the prevalence of some so-called ‘unfit’ traits sometimes higher than expected? Nearly 15% of human couples ask for medical assistance to achieve a healthy pregnancy, and many will... Read More