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Equity Issues, Admixed Populations Continue to Complicate Use of Polygenic Risk Scores
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Multiple presentations at the recent ESHG meeting focused on questions related to diversity in GWAS as well as applying risk scores in admixed populations.

ESHG: UK Study Finds 6 Percent of Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients Carry Cancer Risk Variant

Researchers looked for pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in 121 cancer risk genes in whole-genome sequencing data from 1,336 unselected RCC patients.

At ESHG, Thermo Fisher Official Predicts IVDR Will Push Labs to Replace LDTs With Commercial Kits
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Europe's new In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation is reshaping the way that laboratories in the region use in-house assays for diagnostics.

MGI Aims to Reenter European Sequencing Market With New HotMPS Chemistry
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At the European Society of Human Genetics annual meeting this week, MGI customers from Sweden and Hungary reported on their experience with the sequencing platform.

New ESHG Recommendations for Clinical Whole-Genome Sequencing Show Differences From US Guidelines
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Previous guidelines for clinical NGS, published by the society in collaboration with EuroGenTest in 2016, focused mainly on whole-exome sequencing.

Sep 1, 2021

In ESHG-ASHG Discussion, Researchers Consider Paths to Socially Just Global Genetics

Aug 31, 2021

FinnGen Project's Role in Epilepsy, Drug Adherence Studies Showcased at ESHG

Aug 30, 2021

At ESHG, DeCode Genetics Highlights Integration of Proteomics, Genomics for Disease Research

Oct 30, 2020

ESHG, ACMG Differ Starkly in Recommendations for Reporting Secondary Findings From Genomic Tests
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Jun 11, 2020

Diversity Problem Hinders Adoption of Polygenic Risk Scores, According to ESHG Panel

Jun 10, 2020

Italian Researchers Use Whole-Exome Sequencing to Unravel COVID-19 Disease Susceptibility

Jun 17, 2019

University of Glasgow Team to Integrate Genomics Into New Cancer Clinical Trials Network
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Jun 17, 2019

At ESHG, Researchers Present New Noninvasive Prenatal Tests, Disease Recurrence Risk Study

Jun 19, 2018

UK Researchers Develop Rapid POC Test for Antibiotic-Related Hearing Loss
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Jul 12, 2017

Estonian Team Pairs Pharmacogenomics, EHRs to Reduce Adverse Drug Reactions
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Jun 6, 2017

New NIPT Reporting Guidelines, Pilot Quality Scheme Aim to Set Standards for Expanding Field
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Jun 2, 2017

Groups Explore Facial Analysis Software for Inherited Disease Diagnosis, Research
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Jun 1, 2017

Thermo Fisher's New Genetic Analyzer Provides Makeover for Sanger Sequencing, Fragment Analysis
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May 30, 2017

Tissue Specificity of Hereditary Disorders Linked to Paralogous Genes, ESHG Talk Suggests

Oct 31, 2016

FDNA Bets on Facial Recognition Software to Boost Diagnosis of Rare Genetic Syndromes
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Jun 6, 2015

UK, Netherlands Report Findings From National NIPT Studies at ESHG Conference

Mar 19, 2015

ESHG, ASHG Issue Joint Statement on NIPT

May 29, 2013

ESHG Issues Recommendations on Clinical WGS
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May 31, 2011

Study Finds Clinical Worries over DTC Tests in Europe

Feb 11, 2011

ESHG Makes Recommendations on Genetic Testing

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Genetic Testing Approach Explores Origins of Blastocyst Aneuploidy

Investigators in AJHG distinguish between aneuploidy events related to meiotic missegregation in haploid cells and those involving post-zygotic mitotic errors and mosaicism.

Study Looks at Parent Uncertainties After Children's Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Diagnoses

A qualitative study in EJHG looks at personal, practical, scientific, and existential uncertainties in parents as their children go through SCID diagnoses, treatment, and post-treatment stages.

Antimicrobial Resistance Study Highlights Key Protein Domains

By screening diverse versions of an outer membrane porin protein in Vibrio cholerae, researchers in PLOS Genetics flagged protein domain regions influencing antimicrobial resistance.

Latent HIV Found in White Blood Cells of Individuals on Long-Term Treatments

Researchers in Nature Microbiology find HIV genetic material in monocyte white blood cells and in macrophages that differentiated from them in individuals on HIV-suppressive treatment.