Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? DD: The scientific motivation of this work was to investigate, for diseases, whether there are tissues beyond the obvious candidates where genes might manifest associations, and if so, can we interpret such findings from an etiologic viewpoint. The statistical method is... Read More
Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? TZ: As a researcher with biostatistics training, I feel it is crucial to get my hands on real-world data to validate the efficiency of many methods that people develop on paper or whiteboards. My advisor kindly offered me this opportunity! HGGA:... Read More
Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? CS: In order to move from genome-wide associated loci toward potentially effective clinical and therapeutic targets, we need to identify which target/effector gene(s) the associate variants are being modulated. There are multiple methods that currently exist that can be used to... Read More
Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: what motivated you to start working on this project? TN: I have been involved in several BRCA1-related projects and what has always driven me is the clinical consequences of identifying carriers of BRCA1 germline pathogenic variants. These individuals are at substantially higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer than... Read More
Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? Jayati Sharma (JS): I have been interested in how our genetics and environment interact to affect our overall physical health for a long time. Given the significant disparities in the health profiles of different minoritized populations in the United States, I... Read More