In African Americans, the genetic risk landscape for inflammatory bowel disease is very different from that of people with European ancestry, according to new findings.
These results of the first whole-genome study of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in African Americans show that future clinical research on IBD needs to take ancestry into account, say the researchers.
Findings of the multi-center study, which analyzed the whole genomes of more than 1,700 affected individuals with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis and more than 1,600 controls, appear in the
As part of their analysis, the researchers developed an algorithm that corrects for ancestry when calculating an IBD polygenic risk score. Polygenic risk scores are tools for calculating gene-based risk for a disease, which are used for IBD as well as other complex conditions such as coronary artery disease.
Life in the time of COVID
Snapshots of how one WashU family lived, worked and thrived in a year that threw us all off balance
The Nussinov family (from left) Maya, Tsitsi, Zohar and Ethan walking their dog, Pi, in Clayton’s Oak Knoll Park. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University)
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In 2020, so much about what we know to be normal came to a grinding halt for the Washington University in St. Louis community. One week in March, we’re looking ahead to a spring “break,” and then suddenly it’s a hiatus turned into a couple of months that’s turned into a way of life. A sea change, that no one really saw coming. Yet the work of the university went on and goes on as the pandemic spills into 2021. How? Because of all of us.
By ANNE BRANIGIN | The Washington Post | Published: February 22, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Apologizing for the echoes of a tantrum in the background. Trying to negotiate deadlines with bath time. Taking a work call while anxiously eyeing a baby monitor. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, this feels routine even as it has upended life for many parents. They re the lucky ones: the parents who have been able to keep a job, work from home and find, however tenuous, some sort of patchwork solution to child care.
Beckman Foundation Announces Funding for Advanced Microscopy Technology
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The Foundation is eager to support advanced light-sheet initiatives at these institutions and increase access to these emerging instruments to scientists at a range of career stages. - Dr. Anne Hultgren, Executive Director IRVINE, Calif. (PRWEB) February 22, 2021 Today, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation announced a $9.6 million investment in advanced light-sheet microscopes and data science at eight institutions selected through a highly competitive application process. The investment underscores the Foundation’s mission of supporting leading-edge research in chemistry and the life sciences and supporting the next generation of leaders in science.
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