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American Heart Association Offers Guidelines on Reporting Incidental Findings of Sequencing Tests

Any findings on "incidental variants" related to cardiovascular diseases should only be revealed to patients if they have consented to receiving the information. 

Pediatric Cardiovascular Genetic Testing Should Be Individualized, Multidisciplinary, Says AHA

Testing decisions should take into account when the condition may arise, whether there are therapies, and the family's values, among other considerations.

American Heart Association Provides Guidance for Genomic Research With Underrepresented Groups

In a policy statement, the AHA said genetic and genomic research should be conducted in partnership with Indigenous peoples and marginalized racial and ethnic groups.

American Heart Association Develops Genetic Testing Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease

The AHA said genetic testing is useful in the management of several inherited diseases such as cardiomyopathies and familial hypercholesterolemia.

American Heart Association Taps Amazon to Support Precision Cardiovascular Research

Amazon's infrastructure will support AHA-funded research into genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that affect cardiovascular health.

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Genetic Ancestry of South America's Indigenous Mapuche Traced

Researchers in Current Biology analyzed genome-wide data from more than five dozen Mapuche individuals to better understand their genetic history.

Study Finds Variants Linked to Diverticular Disease, Presents Polygenic Score

A new study in Cell Genomics reports on more than 150 genetic variants associated with risk of diverticular disease.

Mild, Severe Psoriasis Marked by Different Molecular Features, Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Finds

A spatial transcriptomics paper in Science Immunology finds differences in cell and signaling pathway activity between mild and severe psoriasis.

ChatGPT Does As Well As Humans Answering Genetics Questions, Study Finds

Researchers in the European Journal of Human Genetics had ChatGPT answer genetics-related questions, finding it was about 68 percent accurate, but sometimes gave different answers to the same question.