G2P Newsletter July 2021

July 2021
G2P News

Our G2P research team continues to be extraordinarily productive, publishing 21 scientific papers so far this year. This summer newsletter highlights a few of these papers, as well as G2P media features, blog posts, and policy recommendations.

Unlocking the human genetics of COVID

Medium |
July 2021
G2P Blog

In an unprecedented international effort, researchers and clinicians tackle the genomics of COVID-19 risk. In this blog post, G2P Director Robert Green writes about what we’ve learned so far concerning genetics and COVID-19 and how the G2P research program has contributed to these growing studies.

Hematopoietic mosaic chromosomal alterations increase the risk for diverse types of infection

Zekavat SM, Lin SH, Bick AG, Liu A, Paruchuri K, Wang C, Uddin MM, Ye Y, Yu Z, Liu X, Kamatani Y, Bhattacharya R, Pirruccello JP, Pampana A, Loh PR, Kohli P, McCarroll SA, Kiryluk K, Neale B , Ionita-Laza I, Engels EA, Brown DW, Smoller JW, Green RC, Karlson EW, Lebo M, Ellinor PT, Weiss ST, Daly MJ, The Biobank Japan Project+, FinnGen Consortium+, Terao C, Zhao H, Ebert BL, COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative+, Reilly MP, Ganna A, Machiela MJ, Genovese G, Natarajan P
Nature Medicine June 2021  

Hospital records hold valuable Covid-19 data. Making it usable is time-consuming work

STAT |
May 2020
Press

To help scientists around the globe study Covid-19, researchers in Boston have shared genetic and other clinical data from thousands of patients with an international consortium. That data includes information from dozens of people with Covid-19, who had donated blood samples and opened up their medical records before the pandemic.

Genetic counselors and the fight for medicare recognition

Medium |
May 2020
G2P Blog

Elizabeth Fieg, MS, LCGC discusses the importance and implication of the H.R. 3235-The Access to Genetic Counselor Service Act that would authorize and recognize appropriately credentialed genetic counselors as reimbursable providers under Medicare.

Coronavirus: Genes may explain why some face greater danger than others

Fox News |
April 2020
Press

“While healthy young people as a group are less likely to have severe symptoms with COVID, they have to understand that some of them will become very ill and will even die from this infection,” Dr. Robert Green said. “No one should assume youth makes them invulnerable.”