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October

Kurt Christensen and colleagues paper “Public perspective on medications to delay Alzheimer's disease symptoms” is featured in The Journal of Genetic Counseling!

Congrats to Sharon and team for their publication “Multi-ancestry genome-wide study identifies effector genes and druggable pathways for coronary artery calcification” being featured in Nature Genetics!

Cheers to Marie-France Hivert and peers for their paper “Higher Maternal Body Mass Index is associated with Lower Placental Expression of EPYC: A Genome-Wide Transcriptomic Study” which is featured in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism!

Marie-France and peers’ publication “Second international consensus report on gaps and opportunities for the clinical translation of precision diabetes medicine” is featured in Nature Medicine!

September

Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ paper ”Evaluation of pediatric epigenetic clocks across multiple tissues” is featured in Clinical Epigenetics!

Marie-France Hivert and peers’ publication “Pediatric Features of Genetic Predisposition to Polycystic Ovary Syndrome” is published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism!

Marie-France and team published their paper “Analysis of DNA methylation at birth and in childhood reveals changes associated with season of birth and latitude” in Clinical Epigenetics!

August

Hadley Stevens Smith’s paper “Parent-Reported Clinical Utility of Pediatric Genomic Sequencing” is featured in Pediatrics!

Hadley Stevens Smith is featured in “Conversations With the Editors: Stewardship in Genomic Medicine-Insights From Health Care Payers at the Forefront of Clinical Innovation and Partnerships” in Clinical Therapeutics!

Hadley Stevens Smith’s paper “Pediatric Genomic Medicine: Value, Implementation, and Access” is featured in Clinical Therapeutics!

Ann Wu and colleagues’ paper “Polygenic risk scores identify heterogeneity in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease” is featured in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology!

Sharon Lutz and peers’ publication “Carriers of rare damaging CCR2 genetic variants are at lower risk of atherosclerotic disease” is featured in medRxiv!

July

Marie-France Hivert and colleagues’ paper “Author Correction: Genetic effects on the timing of parturition and links to fetal birth weight” is featured in Nature Genetics!

Hadley Stevens Smith’s paper “The Other Side of the Self-Advocacy Coin: How For-Profit Companies Can Divert the Path to Justice in Rare Disease” is featured in The American Journal of Bioethics!

Congrats to Kurt Christensen, Maddie Hickingbotham and Emilie Zoltick for their publication “Attitudes about pharmacogenomic testing vary by healthcare specialty” featured in Pharmacogenomics!

Kurt Christensen and colleagues’ manuscript “Actionability of unanticipated monogenic disease risks in newborn genomic screening: Findings from the BabySeq Project” is featured in the American Journal of Human Genetics!

Hadley Stevens Smith and Maddie Hickingbotham’s paper “Clinically Indicated Genomic Sequencing of Children in Foster Care: Legal and Ethical Issues” is featured in the Journal of Pediatrics!

June

Cheers to Hadley Stevens Smith, who has been appointed Assistant Professor of Population Medicine!

Congrats to Sharon Lutz, who has been promoted to Associate Professor of Population Medicine!

Hadley Stevens Smith and colleagues’ publication The Other Side of the Self-Advocacy Coin: How For-Profit Companies Can Divert the Path to Justice in Rare Disease is featured in the American Journal of Bioethics.

Kurt Christensen and colleagues’ publication Actionability of unanticipated monogenic disease risks in newborn genomic screening: Findings from the BabySeq Project is featured in the American Journal of Human Genetics!

Sharon Lutz, Marie France Hivert and colleagues’ publication Maternal glycemia in pregnancy is longitudinally associated with blood DNAm variation at the FSD1L gene from birth to 5 years of age is featured in Clinical Epigenetics!

May

Cheers to Kurt Christensen and colleagues for their publication Public perspective on medications to delay Alzheimer's disease symptom featured in Journal of Genetic Counseling.

Kurt Christensen, Ann Wu and colleagues’ publication SLCO1B1 gene-based clinical decision support reduces statin-associated muscle symptoms risk with simvastatin is featured in Pharmacogenomics!

Hadley Stevens Smith and colleagues’ publication Cascade testing after exome sequencing: Retrospective analysis of linked family data at 2 US laboratories is featured in Genetics in Medicine!

April

Congrats to Ann Wu and team for receiving funding for their PreEMPT II proposal!

The PreEMPT Study has a new logo, designed by Mikaela Batista:

Hadley Stevens Smith attended and presented at the 2023 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting!

Hadley Stevens Smith and colleagues’ publication Key drivers of family-level utility of pediatric genomic sequencing: a qualitative analysis to support preference research is featured in the European Journal for Human Genetics!

Hadley Stevens Smith, Maddie Hickingbotham and colleagues’ publication Framing the Family: A Qualitative Exploration of Factors That Shape Family-Level Experience of Pediatric Genomic Sequencing is featured in Children!

January

Sharon Lutz and colleagues’ publication "A comparison between similarity matrices for principal component analysis to assess population stratification in sequenced genetic data sets" is featured in Briefings in Bioinformatics!

Kurt Christensen and colleagues’ publication "Awareness and utilization of genetic testing among Hispanic and Latino adults living in the US: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos" is featured in HGG Advances!

Ann Wu and colleagues’ article "Teleallergy: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?" is featured in JACI In Practice!

Joanne Sordillo and colleagues’ publication "Multi-omic association study identifies DNA methylation-mediated genotype and smoking exposure effects on lung function in children living in urban settings" is featured in PLOS Genetics.