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CardioVar Consortium Wins $8.2M From NHLBI to Map Heart Disease Variants, Functional Effects
The investigators hope to eventually create a decision support resource with utility for physicians evaluating genetic test results in heart disease patients.
TOPMed Researchers Offer Guidance for Use of Race, Ethnicity, Ancestry Data in Genomic Research
While originally developed for the TOPMed program, the authors said the recommendations could be widely applicable to genetic research in diverse populations.
New Leukocyte-Linked Loci Uncovered With Multi-Ancestry Genomes
Using genome sequence data for more than 61,800 diverse TOPMed participants, researchers found seven new loci with significant ties to leukocyte traits.
Analysis of TOPMed Genomes Finds Many Previously Undescribed Variants
In the first 53,831 samples, the researchers detected more than 410 million variants. almost 80 percent of which had not been described before.
Heart Transplant Cell-Free DNA Test Enables Earlier Detection of Acute Rejection Than Biopsy
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The researchers hope that donor-derived cell-free DNA testing to monitor rejection can help relieve racial disparities in heart transplant outcomes.