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2020: A Challenging Year of Progress for Genomics and Precision Public Health

2020 with an arrow to 2021 with a double helix below and a COVID-19 virus and a masked family and under 2021 a person getting the COVID-19 vaccine

It is time to wrap up an eventful 2020 which unfortunately was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic. From January 2020 through November 2020, we saw a major increase in visits to our website (> 2.6 million views, compared to 2 million views in 2019 and 1.2 million views in 2018). In our year end blog, Read More >

Posted on by Muin J. Khoury and Scott Bowen, Office of Genomics and Precision Public Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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Genomic Medicine Year in Review 2020: Population-wide Implementation Research Has Arrived

Genomic Medicine - af figure looking at 2020 with a magnifying glass and a double helix

Advances in genomic medicine continue at a steady pace. In a December 2019 paper, The Genomic Medicine Working Group of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) identified 10 papers with the most significant advances in the field. In our 2019 end of the year blog. we featured 5 Read More >

Posted on by Muin J. Khoury and W. David Dotson, Office of Genomics and Precision Public Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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15 Years of Genome-wide Association Studies: What’s the Public Health Impact?

GWAS plot with figures above and 2005 with an arrow to 2020 in the foreground

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test thousands or millions of genetic variants scattered throughout the human genome for association with human traits or diseases. GWAS burst onto the scientific scene in 2005 and have been enabled by technological advances and falling prices. A recent commentary in Nature Communications summarized the state of the science: To date, Read More >

Posted on by Muin J. Khoury and Marta Gwinn, Office of Genomics and Precision Public Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Categories genomics, GWAS