For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 11:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Evelyn Mantegani, 202-725-2730, press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, Md – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) announced today the election of Heather Mefford MD, PhD as ASHG’s 2026 President-elect, bringing her deep expertise and leadership in human genetics to this pivotal role. Fowzan Alkuraya... Read More
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 9, 2025, 9:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Evelyn Mantegani, 202-725-2730, press@ashg.org Rockville, Md. – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2025 Annual Meeting will take place October 14-18, 2025 at the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, MA. Credentialed members of the press and media are eligible to request complimentary press access to... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? JD: As I began my PhD in statistical genetics, I wanted to start from the ground up. Much of the excitement in our field today centers on precision medicine, which utilizes genetics to refine disease risk prediction, identify novel... Read More
Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? Most genomic research has focused on individuals of European ancestry and has commonly used imputation panels that contain more European haplotypes, leading to poorer accuracy in other ancestries. In addition, standard panels are largely disease-agnostic, whereas ours is built from Alzheimer’s... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? FR: I had previously developed the graph machine learning framework, Speos, which specializes in the prediction of core genes across several traits. The respective paper, however, primarily focused on benchmarking, validation, and prediction accuracy. Although it... Read More