January: When it comes to breast cancer, Non-Hispanic Black women have a 40% higher mortality rate than Non-Hispanic White women. Additionally, Non-Hispanic Black women have dramatically lower rates of uptake of genetic testing and then, if testing finds variants that would warrant such actions, undergoing prophylactic preventative surgeries ..read more

December: As cardiovascular disease has many known genetic components, a team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine created a panel of genes associated with cardiovascular disease they call HeartCare. David Murdock, previously the assistant director of the clinical lab at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center and now a lab director at Invitae, states “we thought that by looking at genetic causes of cardiovascular disease in an adult population, that could really help us to push forward genetic testing in adults in general ..read more

January 2018: Keeping Science from getting lost in translation ..read more

December 2017: Beyond 21, 18 and 13: Broadening applications of Non Invasive Prenatal Screening ..read more

July 2016: The real father of Precision Medicine ..read more

March 2017: Public health and CPT1A variants ..read more

November 2016: Updating “The List” – The ACMG 56 is now the ACMG 59 ..read more

November 2017: New Estimates of the Penetrance of Hemochromatosis: Time to re-think screening ..read more

July 2017: Making sense of a deluge of variants: harnessing the power of community ..read more

July 2015: The Potential Utility of Genomics for Adoptees ..read more