Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? Valerie Arboleda (VA): The most enjoyable projects often emerge from learning new methods and tackling shared problems. In this case, my friend, co-author (Keriann M. Backus, PhD), and lab neighbor had been generating exciting chemoproteomic datasets... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? MD: This project began as I rotated in the lab of Christopher (Casey) Brown, PhD. Casey was a leader of the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) consortium, and his graduate student at the time, Brandon Wenz, had generated... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? LB: A few years ago, I had an experience that made me realize that clinical genetic testing in the electronic health record (EHR) represented an enormous and largely untapped resource that could help patients and drive... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? CT: Early in my graduate training, I found myself pivoting from experimental biology to computational research in an environment that excelled in statistical genetics. This provided a fascinating intersection of disciplines where I was ultimately drawn... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? TS: Expanding from rare inborn errors of immunity to population-scale genomics has been a transformative experience for me. While single-gene disorders gave me a strong foundation in genetics and immunology, I was particularly motivated to explore... Read More