Researchers highlight need for ethnic and ancestral diversity in large-scale genomic studies
News Medical Life Sciences June 20 2019 James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor) A new multicenter analysis led by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and other institutions found the inclusion of diverse,...
Personalized Medicine Is the Future of Healthcare, but People of Color Have Been Left Out of the Picture
Insight Into Diversity May 16, 2019 by Kelsey Landis Children who inherit cystic fibrosis face a shortened lifespan, lung infections, stunted growth, and respiratory failure. The hereditary disease is not curable, but diagnosis using genetic testing shortly after...
Diverse Population GWAS Delivers Distinct Disease, Trait Associations
GenomeWeb June 19, 2019 NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A team led by investigators at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill demonstrated that the common genetic risk variants...
ASHG-AJHG Webinar on Polygenic Risk Scores
American Society of Human Genetics June 4, 2019 With growing interest in polygenic risk scores (PRS) and questions arising about its clinical relevance, ASHG and The American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG) hosted the webinar The Development and Application of...
Pathogenic RET Variants Occur at Higher Prevalence Than Previously Recognized
Medical Research.com March 24, 2019 MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Emily J. Gallagher, MDAssistant Professor of MedicineEndocrinology, Diabetes and Bone DiseaseIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Dr. Gallagher Emily J. Gallagher, MD Assistant Professor of...
Mount Sinai researchers call for diversity in the next generation of personalized medicine
A global biobank analysis reveals nearly 70 percent of studied genomic data are derived from those of European descent EurekaAlert, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) New York, NY (March 21, 2019) -- In a perspective published today in the...
Mount Sinai Researchers Call for More Diversity in the Next Generation of Personalized Medicine
A global biobank analysis reveals nearly 70 percent of studied genomic data are derived from those of European descent New York, NY (March 21, 2019) In a perspective published today in the journal Cell, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai...
NYCKidSeq Project Aims to Improve Communication of Genomic Test Results
GenomeWeb March 7, 2019 NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) –NYCKidSeq, one of several projects funded under the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Sequencing Evidence-gathering Research (CSER) program, is testing two interactive tools: one designed to improve the...
Irish absence from EU genome project harmful to DNA of our health system
Genetic variation key to susceptibility to disease and reaction to medications The Irish Times June 25, 2018 Sixteen European Union countries have signed up to a European genome project to collaborate on DNA research and, regrettably, Ireland is not yet one of them....