Realizing the benefits of human genetics and genomics research for people everywhere.
Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? YT: As a researcher, it is important for me to think about this problem: what can you do to ensure the results and the benefits of your research are equally shared by everyone? It has been widely... Read More
Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? MS and GG: There’s been much discussion about the underrepresentation of historically marginalized gender, racial and ethnic groups in precision medicine research and the ramification of this underrepresentation for health equity. We are a diverse team, all... Read More
Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? CSR: We’re the only clinical genetics lab for the only medical school in Oregon – OHSU is a major healthcare provider for the Oregon population. Our lab had the expertise to carry out the genetic testing, interpretation... Read More
Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? JT: The unresolved mystery of personal history. Alright, that’s unnecessarily cryptic, let me try again. Upon completing my undergraduate studies, I found myself the unwilling protagonist of a medical odyssey, one highlighted by indiscriminate immune attack and... Read More
Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? LS: Since the Wise et al., AJHG 2013 eXclusion report ten years ago that documented that the X chromosome was typically excluded from GWAS, my lab has been thinking about developing statistical methods for the X chromosome,... Read More