ASHG News

Jessica Honorato-Mauer, MS

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Jessica Honorato-Mauer

Posted By: Alyson Barnes, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG AB: What motivated you to start working on this project? JH: One of my interests in genetics research is to help reduce disparities between populations, so that we can achieve more inclusive and effective risk prediction/healthcare. Although more focused on the methodological aspects, in this project we... Read More

Inside <em>HGG Advances</em>: A Chat with Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? MG: The pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) remains poorly understood. In other immune-mediated diseases, integrating genome-wide association studies with epigenomics and transcriptomics has successfully identified key pathogenic cell types, such as T cells in rheumatoid arthritis and B cells in systemic... Read More

Inside <em>AJHG</em>: A Chat with Anahit Hovhannisyan

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Anahit Hovhannisyan

Posted By: Alyson Barnes, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG AB: What motivated you to start working on this project? AH: Although I was born in Armenia, I emigrated at the age of three and spent most of my life living abroad. Over the years, I found myself feeling increasingly distanced from my homeland and its history.... Read More

Elizabeth Plender, BS/BA

Trainee Excellence Spotlight: Elizabeth Plender, BS/BA

Structural and genetic diversity in the secreted mucins MUC5AC and MUC5B Position: PhD Candidate, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington & Fred Hutch Cancer Center ASHG: Can you describe the type of research that has your primary focus? Elizabeth Plender: I study genetic variation in the mucins, a set of heterogenous loci that encode... Read More

Lap Sum Chan, MS

Trainee Excellence Spotlight: Lap Sum Chan, MS, PhD

A novel multivariable Mendelian randomization framework to disentangle highly correlated exposures with application to metabolomics Position: Postdoctoral Associate in the Pan Lab working with Professor Wei Pan, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, University of Minnesota ASHG: Can you describe the type of research that has your primary focus? Lap Sum Chan: My research... Read More