The American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting is one of the largest conferences for human genetics and genomics research. This year’s meeting will be held November 5-9, 2024 in Denver, Colorado. Like previous years, several CICB-affiliated scientists and their trainees will be presenting their cutting-edge research spanning many topics important in human diseases and traits.
From the Bush lab:
Heterogeneity in the Genetic Architecture of AD across Ancestry Groups, to be presented by Research Associate Penny Benchek, PhD
Elucidating the ancestry-specific architecture of expression quantitative trait loci in Alzheimer’s Disease, to be presented by Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (SYBB) PhD candidate Makaela Mews
Genome-wide comparison of allele specific gene expression in Non-Hispanic White, African American, Caribbean Hispanic, and Peruvian populations, to be presented by post-doctoral fellow Esteban Vazquez-Hidalgo, PhD
From cortex to cortex: the shared genetic components of kidney function and Alzheimer’s Disease, to be presented by Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI) PhD candidate Diya Yang
Monocyte Inflammation and Resilience to Alzheimer’s disease: Novel Genetic Risk Genes Identified by Transcriptome-wide Association Study, to be presented by SYBB PhD candidate Yousef Mustafa
A Multi-ancestry Transcriptome-Wide Association Study of Alzheimer’s Disease, to be presented by BHI PhD trainee Xinyu Sun
Long-read sequencing enables structural variant discovery and identification in haptoglobin, to be presented by SYBB PhD trainee Yuchen Yang
An Empirical Simulator of Gene Expression Profiles Capturing Regulatory Effects of Rare Genetic Variants, to be presented by post-doctoral fellow Xueyi Zhang
From the Crawford lab:
A Diversity-First Approach to Understanding Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma, to be presented by Epidemiology & Biostatistics (EPBI) PhD candidate Lauren Cruz
Genetics of postpartum depression in African American women, to be presented by Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) Scholar Carly DaCosta
Context Matters: Alzheimer Disease Heritability Differs by Population, to be presented by EPBI PhD candidate Shiying Liu
Mendelian Randomization does not implicate MS risk factors as having a role in NMOSD susceptibility, to be presented by post-doctoral fellow Elina Misicka, PhD
Impact of COVID-19 vaccination status and strain-specific infection on risk of developing dementia in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Data Enclave, to be presented by BHI PhD candidate Carly Rose
From the Haines lab:
Transcriptome-wide Association Study Identifies Novel Risk Loci Associated with Age-Related Macular Degeneration, to be presented by post-doctoral fellow Michelle Grunin, PhD
Identifying rare variants for cognitive preservation on chromosome 2 in the Midwestern Amish, to be presented by SYBB PhD trainee Yining Liu
Investigating the role of APOE and retinal biomarkers for predicting Alzheimer Disease, to be presented by SYBB PhD trainee Noel Moore
Mosaic Loss of Chromosome X in Peripheral Blood Cells from Whole-Genome Sequencing and Alzheimer’s Disease in the Amish, to be presented by Instructor Yeunjoo Song, PhD
Genome-wide linkage analysis reveals a novel locus for increased plasma p-tau 181 levels on Chromosome 1 in the Amish, to be presented by EPBI PhD candidate Ping Wang
From the Schumacher lab:
Cross-comparison of genomic approaches for ancestry estimation, to be presented by Qiao Wang
A Discovery of Novel Methylation Profiles and Race-Specific Methylated Sites for Breast Cancer Risk, to be presented by EPBI PhD candidate Yanning Wu
From the Williams lab:
Deviations from additivity in APOE4-associated Alzheimer’s disease, to be presented by Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) and EPBI PhD candidate Razaq Durodoye
From the Zhu lab:
Unsupervised evaluation of pre-trained DNA large language models embeddings, to be presented by post-doctoral fellow Raghav Awasthi, PhD
Cell Type-Specific contributions of PRS of 34 complex traits, to be presented by BHI PhD trainee Mengxuan Li
Cross-Phenotype Genome-wide Association Study of Brain Morphology Features Extracted from Brain MRI Images, to be presented by BHI PhD trainee Gayan Mend Mend Arachchige
Uncovering causal gene-tissue pairs and variants: A multivariable TWAS method that controls for infinitesimal effects, to be presented by post-doctoral fellow Yihe Yang, PhD
