Friday, October 19, 2012

All Hands Meeting: Bette Phimister.

Bette Phimister, Deputy Editor of NEJM discussed the challenges of being an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and what the process towards publication looks like. The most vivid challenge described was that of assigning causality at the clinical level to variants discovered in genome-scale studies.

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Friday, October 12, 2012

Inflammation DBP

Kat Liao reviewed the interaction between LDL genetic risks and RA genetic risks in the determination of lipid profile.

Type 2 DM and Coronary Artery Disease study

Stan Shaw led the discussion on what studies we will initially perform to validate the cohort relative to other previously studied cohorts.