Researchers have uncovered the lineage and legacy—including more than 40,000 living relatives—of free and enslaved African Americans who labored at the Catoctin Furnace in Maryland, between 1774 and 1850. Read that study and more this week in Science: scim.ag/3B5

New research by 23andMe Research, Harvard Medical School, and Smithsonian NMNH linked DNA of enslaved African Americans with more than 40,000 living relatives. blog.23andme.com/articles/histo…

Pleased for 23andMe Research to have contributed to this finding of a novel risk factor in GBA1 in people of African descent thelancet.com/journals/laneu…

New FDA clearance will allow us to improve our BRCA1/BRCA2 (Selected Variants) Genetic Health Risk report* for underrepresented communities. We plan to update the report with 41 additional variants later this year. (1/4) blog.23andme.com/articles/brca1…

September is #SickleCellAwarenessMonth, so we asked Elo, a member of our Genomic Health team, to explain sickle cell trait (SCT) in :23 or less. 🧬

23andMe #GenomicHealth Medical Affairs Manager, Stacey Detweiler, will be speaking at #AHA23 on 11/12: #Polygenic Risk Scores for #CVD - Opportunities & Challenges for Clinical Implementation, Ask the Right Questions: #ELSI of PRS Genetic Counselors! #genetics Noura Abul-Husn, MD, PhD 🧬 🧬🩺🫀

Read what two of our genetic counseling team members have to say about #DTC #genetictesting! #GeneChat #genetics #genomicseducation

🧬 Exciting breakthrough from the eMERGE Network! Paving the way for Polygenic Risk Scores (PRSs) to enter clinical practice, enhancing personalized medicine. #Genomics #PersonalizedMedicine 1/n #eMERGENetwork Niall J Lennon Leah Kottyan #ChrisKachulis nature.com/articles/s4159…

A new study from the eMERGE consortium reports on a pipeline for the generation and reporting of polygenic risk scores for ten diseases to diverse populations in a clinical setting Niall J Lennon Eimear Kenny AllofUsResearch Broad Institute nature.com/articles/s4159…

So fun to talk about health, prevention, and genetics to an inspiring group of MAKERS!

Oh hello Toronto! 🍁It’s a beautiful day for #ACMGMtg24. ☀️🧬 Looking forward to hearing about all the exciting advances in #genetics and to connecting with friends and colleagues from all around!

Five things entrepreneurs can learn from a physician-scientist fastco.expert/3TyU57e Written by Noura Abul-Husn, MD, PhD 🧬 of 23andMe

🔎 Bringing #genomicmedicine into focus! Delighted to welcome Eric Green Dr. Eric Green 23andMe headquarters today. We talked about education, research, AI, and healthcare, and got to hear his ✨vision on the central role of #genomics in health, disease, and medicine. 🧬🩺

✨It’s National DNA Day!✨ 🧬 So grateful to work with an amazing team both here 23andMe and with our many innovative collaborators who are improving #health and preventing disease through #genetics and #genomicmedicine 🩺💚💞l Happy #DNADay!!

Such an honor to visit and speak NIH National Human Genome Research Institute today! 🧬🩺 Thanks to all for the warm welcome and engaging discussions, and a special thanks to my host @nhnchrd Dr. Neil Hanchard and the wonderful trainees I got to spend time with.

Explore the unspoken side of wellness with Dr. Noura Abul-Husn, MD, PhD 🧬 from 23andMe as she outlines the importance of personal health and the role of genetics in our journey to well-being. 🧬💚 Full speech 👉🏽 yhoo.it/44ZxVPz! #MAKERSWomen #Wellness #SelfCare #WomensHealth

In the latest edition of "Huh, I didn't expect that to work", our latest paper shows that LLMs can outperform existing methods for identifying causal genes in genome-wide association studies. 🧵 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ethnicity-based carrier screening may miss detecting reproductive risks, as shown in study where over half of identified heterozygotes for certain conditions did not meet traditional ancestry-based screening criteria bit.ly/47qm4ep #GIMO Noura Abul-Husn, MD, PhD 🧬 @HannahLlorin

📌Publication alert: In a preprint from the 23andMe Research team, we conducted one of the largest GWAS study of Long COVID and identified genetic links of chronic conditions with Long COVID. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Waving the red flag. #Genome-first approach identifies important #ATTRv-related clinical features in an ancestrally diverse population bit.ly/3WNZyIs #amyloidosis #cardiomyopathy #genomicscreening Noura Abul-Husn, MD, PhD 🧬 Amy R. Kontorovich, MD, PhD