Alyson Barnes

Editor @AJHGNews @GeneticsSociety · @DukeMGM · University of Virginia · human geneticist · microbiologist · outdoor enthusiast (she/her)

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🚨Online NOW!!
📄How to create personalized gene editing platforms: Next steps toward interventional genetics
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Lingbin Ni presents on his use of donor-specific assemblies with matching deep Hi-C to uncover haplotype-specific 3D genomic architecture during the #ASHG25 Featured Plenary Abstract Session III.

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Big applause for today’s award winners who push boundaries and inspire the field!

🏆Eric Green, 2025 Leadership Awardee
🏆Elizabeth Bhoj, 2025 Early Career Awardee

We’re proud to celebrate their impact at #ASHG25: https://t.co/N06FPpOdFI #ASHG

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Find these topics and much much more in the poster sessions below:

🔬Cancer
🔬Complex Traits and Polygenic Disorders
🔬Omics Technologies

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Interested in variation beyond SNVs? Platform session "Function of complex variation and repeats" is just the beginning—visit posters that explore CNVs in cancer susceptibility genes, dissect genetic effects on repeat expansions, & develop methods for genotyping complex alleles!

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Come say hi!

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TODAY! Come to ASHG Central from 3-4 to discuss your work with your friendly AJHG editors @AlysonBBarnes & @pwhook #ASHG25

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Caught @OliviaG_PhD's talk at #ASHG25 and interested in more of @VariantBio's work? Here's a recent publication from Variant in @HGGAdvances on body composition associations in a Malagasy cohort: https://t.co/pFmlhYCrAu

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We're starting day three of #ASHG25 strong w/ the morning block of platform sessions! Not sure what to see? Check out this session, 'Human Diversity and Evolution,' which highlights recent progress in the study of ancient DNA and varied human populations: https://t.co/2JPtSIcbcZ

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"Single-cell genomics of peripheral immune cells reveals that social support is associated w/ anti-inflammatory gene regulatory mechanisms in older adults" —Francesca Luca, PhD

To learn more about Dr. Luca's work, check out these posters and session below ⤵️#ASHG25

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Humans are not as homogeneous as we once thought. Loic Yengo, PhD, shares, “There’s a lot more admixture and we need to expand our models to account for admixture in fine-mapping analyses,” during the #ASHG25 Presidential Symposium.

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David Reich, PhD, on the increase in ancient genome samples over the past 10 years—“This makes it possible for us to ask and answer questions about the past that we could not do before.” #ASHG25

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In discussing the comparison of archaic DNA & modern DNA, Janet Kelso, PhD, shared, "We identified a set of around 15 significant associations w/ 11 phenotypes and fascinatingly, more than half are involved in skin and hair phenotypes,” during the #ASHG25 Presidential Symposium.

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We are delighted to celebrate genetics and genomics discoveries from @GeneticsSociety members' in this curated research collection from the ASHG family of journals #ASHG25 https://t.co/19AfAq7JuN

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Interested in Marsha Wheeler's talk on the GREGoR Consortium and curious what GREGoR has been involved in? Check out these two papers published recently in @HGGAdvances! #ASHG25

https://t.co/AIHp3WumxO
https://t.co/KFpUsqfd6r

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The response to Baby KJ wasn’t universally positive.

“We have gotten thousands and thousands of requests from individuals seeking help,” says Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, a physician at CHOP. “We need to scale this, because we need to be able to help all of those other patients.”
#STATSummit

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Come to ASHG Central 3-4 pm TODAY to meet incoming EiC @kiranmusunuru & @HGGAdvances EiC @bamshadmike
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If you're attending the "RNA functions beyond coding sequence" platform session, be sure to check out related posters exploring snRNAs associated with rare diseases, dissecting the function of non-coding transcripts, and linking non-coding transcripts to common diseases! #ASHG25

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Day 2 of #ASHG25 kicks off with Featured Symposia!

Check out "From Data to Diagnosis: Advancing Rare Disease Research through Collaborative Genomics" to learn how large-scale genomic resources are transforming rare disease diagnosis: https://t.co/5ragJit1xV #ASHG25

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For more from the Tishkoff lab, out Jasmin Rees's poster this afternoon (Board 6032W)!

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Attending the Evolution of the Coding and Non-Coding Genome session at #ASHG25 and want to see more of Michael McQuillan's work? Check out https://t.co/7ig236Trar recently published in @AJHGNews!