GA4GH Announcements

📋 The GA4GH Pedigree Standard is open for public comment. Please submit comments and feedback via GitHub or email by Friday, 5 August at 17:00 UTC. 

 🗣 The GA4GH Code of Conduct is now open for public comment. Please submit comments and feedback via Google Doc or email by Thursday, 8 September at 17:00 UTC.

GA4GH Mentions

ISO endorsement of Phenopackets promises to address disease interpretation from EHRs

29 July • GenomeWeb, USA

"The standards body Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) in 2019 named [Phenopackets] one of five emerging standards central to its five-year strategic plan to support and enable responsible genomic data sharing... GA4GH is continuing to work on standards for representing variants and annotations in EHRs, in parallel with HL7's effort to express genotypes in patient records."

Discrimination took a toll on the mental health of racial and ethnic minority groups during the Covid-19 pandemic

27 July • Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

"In a study in JAMA Psychiatry, the team reported that the greater the discrimination, the more pronounced the depressive symptoms...The study was supported by the International HundredK+ Cohorts Consortium (IHCC), which has been created in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and the Global Genomics Medicine Collaborative (G2MC) with support from the National Institute of Health and the Wellcome Trust.”

Genomics and Health News

"A new era": after winding path and safety scares, gene therapy enters the clinic

30 July • The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia

Rare mutations in CIDEB gene protect against liver disease

29 July • Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, USA

AlphaFold predicts structure of almost every catalogued protein known to science

28 July • EMBL-EBI, Europe

Early Europeans could not tolerate milk but drank it anyway, study finds

27 July • The New York Times, USA

The latest breakthroughs that could help bladder cancer patients

27 July • TIME, USA

Life and ethics in an "era of genetics"

27 July • Deutsche Welle, Germany

​​Genomics is racing toward a $100 genome. Are we ready for it?

27 July • STAT, USA

Study supports potential of Genome-to-Treatment (GTRx™) to guide physicians in the management of 500 treatable genetic diseases

26 July • Rady Children's Institute, USA

All of Us seeks input on broadening participants’ electronic health record data

25 July • NIH, USA

Could genetics be the key to never getting the coronavirus?

25 July • The Atlantic, USA

GA4GH Events

🧳 Registration is open for the GA4GH 10th Plenary Meeting

22 to 23 September 2022 • Barcelona, Spain

A complimentary Welcome Reception on the evening of Wednesday, 21 September is included in Plenary registration. Participants attending Plenary in person are also invited to submit posters for the meeting. Posters should showcase the work of GA4GH and other related activities that will enable the responsible, voluntary, and secure sharing of genomic and health-related data in the broader community. Submit poster abstracts here.

Other Upcoming Events