So proud that this work is now published AJHG. It was truly an effort of a team of undergrad students (at the time), led by Jordan Cahoon. It was also a project used to introduce new grad students or others just getting into genomic analysis - the team effort really worked out!

The stars are aligning (literally) for our paper to come out today 😂🌞 Jiyang Yu St. Jude Research

Thrilled to see our work on genetic prediction of immune checkpoint inhibitor-mediated colitis published in Nature Communications
Elad Ziv Rohit Thummalapalli Dr. Melinda Aldrich, MPH, PhD Linda Kachuri

nature.com/articles/s4146…

Published in Cell Genomics, USC researchers find genetic variant contributing to disparities in childhood #leukemia risk. This work was done in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber/Boston Children's. Read more here: keck.usc.edu/news/usc-resea…

✨Congratulations to our faculty member Marlena Fejzo, PhD, (Marlena Fejzo) who has been named one of TIME magazine's 2024 'Women of the Year.'
Join us in celebrating her impactful research and this exemplary recognition.

Geneticist Marlena Fejzo, PhD, has been named one of @Time magazine’s 2024 ‘Women of the Year.’ ⭐️

She was chosen for her recent study showing a hormone produced by the fetus triggers nausea and vomiting during #pregnancy . keck.usc.edu/news/usc-genet…

Photo: Christina Gandolfo

🎙SEASON 3: We're kicking off the return of our podcast with Marlena Fejzo, PhD, who discusses her recent study on extreme morning sickness. Learn more about the clinical implications of her findings & why she decided to study this area of research. 📷Listen📷keck.usc.edu/pphs/podcast/

Wonderful to have our paper, 'Inherited blood cancer predisposition through altered transcription elongation', published (open access) in Cell today!
cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

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“Backtracking to the Future” !

Our new article in Leukemia describes the prenatal origins of childhood leukemia, and what we hope to learn by studying patient cord blood samples in the ReCord study (record.umn.edu)

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🎙️EP 15: Pursuing Prevention of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) with Adam de Smith, PhD. His research is focused on trying to understand causes of ALL, the most common childhood #cancer , by identifying genetic risk factors and environmental exposures.
➡️pphs.usc.edu/podcast/

I’m excited to share my recent publication where we identified a DNA methylation signature of congenital heart defects in newborns with Down syndrome! Check it out: humgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

🔬 Excited to share my second paper from PhD published in HGG Advances: 'Evaluating Genomic #Polygenic Risk Scores for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic #Leukemia in #Latinos ' 🧬

The 2nd chapter of Dr. Soyoung Elizabeth Jeon's thesis is published! She furthered what we now know about genetics of childhood leukemia in her 1st chapter, assessed what we could do to predict the future in this study. Now we just need something about the past to complete the trilogy!

Check out our new paper in Human Genetics and Genomics Advances “Evaluating Genomic #Polygenic Risk Scores for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic #Leukemia in Latinos” led by Soyoung Elizabeth Jeon and Charleston Chiang

Congratulations to Dr. Adam de Smith who received a $600,000 grant from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to identify children with the highest risk of developing acute lymphoblastic #leukemia and lay the groundwork towards newborn screening of preleukemia and potential disease prevention.

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