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Academic Papers

Fitzgerald, Tomas, and Ewan Birney. “CNest: A Novel Copy Number Association Discovery Method Uncovers 862 New Associations from 200,629 Whole Exome Sequence Datasets in the UK Biobank.” bioRxiv, 19 Aug. 2021, p. 2021.08.19.456963, doi:10.1101/2021.08.19.456963.

Genomics and Health News

Solving COVID-19 Vaccine Inequality, Recommendations to Increase Access

August 20 • Science Africa, Kenya

How work could reduce the risk of dementia (translated from German)

August 19 • Der Spiegel, Germany

3 countries, 1 pandemic: International perspectives on COVID-19 data sharing

August 19 • Healthcare IT News, USA

New report shows open data is at the heart of innovation

August 19 • ELIXIR Europe, UK

Scientific, moral imperatives underlie including rare disorders in the ARPA-H mandate

August 18 • STAT News, USA

Dr. Mavis Machirori: Data, Tech, Justice and Equalities

August 18 • Genomics England, UK

Researchers uncover evolutionary forces at play in the aging of the blood system and identify people at increased risk of blood cancer

August 17 • Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Canada

A new age of data means embracing the edge

August 16 • MIT Technology Review, USA

ONC, CDC want to fix the fragmented public health system COVID-19 exposed

August 13 • Healthcare IT News, USA

Penn Researchers Unlock Genetic ‘Treasure Map’ for Chronic Kidney Disease

August 12 • Penn Medicine News, USA

Joint Variant genotyping use case

July 13 • CINECA Project, UK

GA4GH Events

GA4GH 9th Plenary is an annual conference bringing together organizations and stakeholders from the genomics and health community to advance international genomics interoperability and sharing. Join us on September 28 and 29 for keynotes, panels, workshops, and updates!

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