By ASHG President Brendan Lee, MD, PhD In January, ASHG released an important report and statement of the Board of Directors documenting painful contributions to past harms associated with human genetics as well as progress being made over decades to address equity in our research community. I want to use this column—to you, our members—... Read More
In late January, the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) released a report on its Facing our History – Building an Equitable Future initiative. Accompanying the report, the ASHG Board of Directors issued a statement that apologized for “the participation of some of its early leaders in the American eugenics movement, as well as the... Read More
Future HGSI program information coming soon. The Human Genetics Scholars Initiative is a program that launched in April 2019 to: Identify, mentor, and help prepare a diverse cohort of high-potential, early-career individuals for professional success.* Develop and sustain a community of researchers across generations committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, who are willing to... Read More
Inside AJHG: A Chat with Mitchell Machiela KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? MM: Our main motivation for this study was to better understand how germline genetic variation in the 6p25.1 Ewing sarcoma (EwS) susceptibility locus contributes to EwS risk. Specifically, based on evidence from a prior investigation of the 10q21.3... Read More
Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? SP: I always had an interest in the field of medical genetics, and oligogenic diseases specifically intrigue me because of their challenging nature, as even after years of research since their first official reporting in the early 1990s, our knowledge on... Read More