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People in the News: Greg Schiffman, Sherri Bale, Hakon Hakonarson, Madhuri Hegde, and Others

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Greg Schiffman will join StemCells as chief financial officer and executive vice president of finance in January.

Schiffman previously held financial executive posts at Affymetix and Applied Biosystems. He most recently was executive vice president and CFO of Dendreon.

StemCells is Newark, Calif.-based company that specializes in cell-based therapeutics and stem cell-based R&D firm. Schiffman will succeed StemCells' current CFO, Rodney Young, when he assumes his new post next year.


Ingenuity Systems, a Qiagen company that offers web-based genomic data analysis applications, last week announced the formation of a scientific advisory board.

Ingenuity's SAB includes Sherri Bale, managing director and cofounder of GeneDx; Madhuri Hegde, executive director of Emory Genetics Laboratory; and Hákon Hákonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

It also includes Doug Basset, Qiagen's chief technology and chief scientific officer; Elaine Mardis, co-director of the Genome Institute at Washington University; Eric Schadt, director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mt. Sinai Hospital; and Jay Shendure, associate professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington.

BioArray News interviewed Emory's Hegde about the use of microarrays and sequencing in molecular diagnostics last month, and spoke with CHOP's Hákonarson about creating a map of human genomic copy number variation in 2009.

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Researchers in PLOS Genetics identify risk variants within and across ancestry groups with a genome-wide association study involving veterans with or without a history of suicidal ideation.

Algorithm Teases Out Genetic Ancestry in Individuals at Biobank Scale

Researchers develop an algorithm known as Rye to tease apart ancestry fractions in admixed individuals at a biobank-scale, applying it to 488,221 UK Biobank participants in Nucleic Acids Research.

Multi-Ancestry Analysis Highlights Comparable Common Variants at Complex Trait-Linked Loci

Researchers in Nature Genetics examine common variants implicated in more than three dozen conditions, estimating genetic effect similarities across ancestry tracts in admixed individuals.

Sick Newborns Selected for WGS With Automated Pipeline

Researchers successfully prioritized infants with potential Mendelian conditions for whole-genome sequencing or rapid whole-genome sequencing, as they report in Genome Medicine.