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JUNE
Congrats to Taylor Montgomery for presenting “Pediatric Genomic Sequencing: Preferences and Clinical Outcomes Among Underrepresented Populations!” and for visiting DPM before ELSICon!
PROMoTeR Articles that were published featured themes on:
- Elective Genomic Testing as a Clinical Service
- MicroRNAs and Fasting Glucose Levels
- Epidemiology and gestational diabetes
- Pathophysiology and pregnancy
- Placental IGFBP1 Levels
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MAY
Congrats to Hadley Smith and team for launching the OSF site where they will host the materials related to the GENE-U instrument.
We are happy to announce that Taylor Montgomery will be presenting Pediatric Genomic Sequencing: Preferences and Clinical Outcomes Among Underrepresented Populations on June 6th, 2024!
PROMoTeR Articles that were published featured themes on:
- Maternal age related to offspring DNA methylation
- Effect of Genes on Depression as Mediated by Smoking
- Implementing genomic sequencing globally
- Genomic sequencing research in pediatric cancer care
- Veteran Program Return Of Actionable Genetic Results
- Evaluating the utility of multi-gene panel testing
- Increased genetic risk for β-cell failure
- Familial communication and cascade testing
- Perceived utility of genomic sequencing in pediatric diagnostic testing
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APRIL
Congrats to Taylor Montgomery for attending the NHGRI Conference in Seattle! She presented a poster at the NHGRI Trainee and Career development meeting.
Congrats to Kurt Christensen for presenting Assessing Outcomes from Genomic Sequencing: Scalable Approaches at this week’s Brown Bag!
PROMoTeR Articles that were featured include themes on:
- Perceived utility of genomic sequencing
- Common variants with inhaled corticosteroids
- Biomarkers of Adolescents with PCOS
- Gestational Diabetes
- Alzheimer’s Disease Across Different Genetic Ancestries
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MARCH
Kurt Christensen presented a poster titled “Enrollment of a Diverse Population into a Trial of Newborn Genomic Sequencing: Preliminary Data from the BabySeq Project” at the 2024 meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics
Hadley Stevens Smith attended ACMG in Toronto, March 12-15 and presented the below posters:
- Smith HS, Hickingbotham MR, Zettler B, Coleman TF, East KM, Pereira S, McGuire AL, Holm IA, Green RC, Christensen KD. Optimism and pessimism about genome sequencing in pediatric health care: Preliminary findings in the BabySeq Project. American College of Genetics and Genomics. Toronto, CA. March 15, 2024.
- Smith HS, Hickingbotham MR, Stein S, DeLuca EK, Armstrong N, Ghosh P, Yeh J, Christensen KD, Wu AC. Newborn genomic sequencing for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Model-based insights. American College of Genetics and Genomics. Toronto, CA. March 14, 2024.
- Smith HS, Hickingbotham MR, Cardeiro D, Lakoma M, Wu AC, Lu CY. Pediatric exome sequencing compared with standard genetic testing: An analysis of private payer claims data. American College of Genetics and Genomics. Toronto, CA. March 14, 2024.
Sharon Lutz gave a talk in February at University of Alabama.
- Causality in genetics: When good methods go rogue
- Epidemiology seminar, University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB)
Marie-France Hivert gave a talk in February 2024 for the annual meeting of CMDO (Quebec Network for cardiometabolic, diabetes, and obesity researchers)
Marie-France Hivert is the Co-chair of a NIDDK working group of Council to orient priorities of NIDDK regarding heterogeneity of diabetes (Lifestyle working group)
PROMoTeR Articles that were featured include themes on:
- Preemptive pharmacogenomic testing on antiplatelet therapy
- Health-related quality of life in children with suspected genetic conditions
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Genetic architecture of gestational diabetes
- Epigenetic aging biomarkers
- Asthma exacerbations and eosinophilia in the UK Biobank
- Common variants are associated with inhaled corticosteroids
- Computation of the eigensystem of genomic similarity matrices
- Loci for coronary artery calcification
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FEBRUARY
Cheers to Sharon Lutz and colleagues for their publication Fast computation of the eigensystem of genomic similarity matrices featured in BMC Bioinformatics!
Congrats to Marie-France Hivert and team for their publication Trans-ancestral genome-wide association study of longitudinal pubertal height growth and shared heritability with adult health outcomes featured in Genome Biology!
Cheers to Marie-France Hivert and team for their publication Pediatric Features of Genetic Predisposition to Polycystic Ovary Syndrome featured in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism!
Congrats to Marie-France Hivert and peers for their publication Maternal prenatal social experiences and offspring epigenetic age acceleration from birth to mid-childhood featured in Annals of Epidemiology!
Congrats to Sharon Lutz and team for their publication Blood-based Transcriptomic and Proteomic Biomarkers of Emphysema featured in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine!
Dr. Denise Scholtens was the PROMoTeR guest speaker on February 22, 2024 and presented on Network Models for Multi-Omics Data!
JANUARY
Congrats to Ann Wu and team for their publication Asthma exacerbations and eosinophilia in the UK Biobank: a genome-wide association study featured in ERJ Open Research!
Cheers to Hadley Stevens Smith and colleagues for their paper Research Participants' Perspectives on Precision Diagnostics for Alzheimer's Disease featured in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease!
Cheers to Sharon Lutz and peers for their publication Fast computation of the eigensystem of genomic similarity matrices featured in BMC Bioinformatics!
Dr. Mollie Minear was our guest speaker for this month’s PROMoTeR seminar on 1/25/24! She presented “Will genomic sequencing break our newborn screening system?”
