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2022 ASHG Annual Meeting

On October 25-29, 2022, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) will participate in the ASHG Annual Meeting - the world's largest human genetics and genomics meeting and exposition.

… 3:00 p.m. — 4:45 p.m. Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Local Ancestry at the MHC region id asscociated … 3:00 p.m. — 4:45 p.m. Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Developing an African American population-based … with European Ancestry and Implications for Genetic Epidemiology Board No. PB3593 Mateus Gouveia Convention …

Policy Issues

Health Disparities

NHGRI wants to ensure that all populations benefit from the advances of genomics research.

… and Genomics Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Consortium Inside the NIH Workshop on the …

News Release

Reddit AMA explores ethical, legal and social implications of genomics research

NIH will hold a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" with members of its NHGRI Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research Program.

… fields - bioethics, law, behavioral and social sciences, epidemiology, public health, public policy, genomics and …

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NIH researchers develop guidelines for reporting polygenic risk scores

Research studies are now using polygenic risk scores to determine a person’s inherited risk for certain diseases, but there are inconsistencies in how these scores are calculated. NHGRI has published guidelines in Nature for how these scores should be reported.

… Genevieve Wojcik, Ph.D., M.H.S., an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public …

Policy Issues

Privacy in Genomics

There are laws and policies that serve to protect the privacy of individuals' genomic information.