Genetic Health Information Network Summit Will Address Data and Digital Infrastructure for Precision Medicine
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Concert Genetics, in collaboration with leaders from across genetics and healthcare, today announced the 4th Genetic Health Information Network Summit will take place October 25-27, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. This event assembles leaders at the intersection of genetics, technology, and healthcare, to solve the data and digital infrastructure challenges in precision medicine. Emerging from a global pandemic, it is clearer than ever that the science of genetics and the systems to track and share data must advance to meet the pressing health challenges of the 21st century, said Gillian Hooker, PhD, ScM, LCGC, Chief Scientific Officer of Concert Genetics. We look forward to bringing this group back together to accelerate that advancement in the hopes of establishing a trul
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Think local. Scientists have mapped the genetic relationships between Mexico’s indigenous groups and discovered a stunning amount of diversity. A. Moreno-Estrada et al., Science (2014)
People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity
Jun. 12, 2014 , 2:00 PM
Imagine if people from Kansas and California were as genetically distinct from each other as someone from Germany is from someone from Japan. That’s the kind of remarkable genetic variation that scientists have now found within Mexico, thanks to the first fine-scale study of human genetic variation in that country. This local diversity could help researchers trace the history of the country’s different indigenous populations and help them develop better diagnostic tools and medical treatments for people of Mexican descent living all over the world.
By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Readers, I got wrapped around the axle on Biden’s horrid visit to a school room, so there will be more in politics and in health (lots of interesting developments) shortly. –lambert UPDATE Readers, I just couldn’t get to the health stuff. Tomorrow!
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I just liked the name “Sociable Weaver.” More sociable weavers, please.
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The ex-husband of Liewatha, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, co-founded a DNA testing company and wrote one of the first computer codes for making genetic comparisons, The Washington Examiner reports.
Jim Warren was involved in the kinds of testing that Warren used to prove [disprove] she is a Native-American.
He was a co-founder of FamilyTreeDNA and worked with Carlos Bustamante, the Stanford geneticist who tested her using Mexican, Peruvian, and Columbian DNA. His conclusion was that there’s a “strong suggestion” Warren had Native-American ancestry 6 to 10 generations ago.
Jim Warren died in 2006. Although they had two children together, there was no love lost between them.