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American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting 2024

Join us live for the annual American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) conference in Denver, Colorado from Nov 5-9, 2024 to learn about Helix's latest research developments in a wide range of therapeutic areas.

Come by to meet our experts and learn more at Booth #970!

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Poster & Platform Presentations

Unleashing the power of the Helix Research Network (HRN), Helix research scientists are presenting posters and talks in a number of major topics in Oncology, Cardiovascular, Autoimmune and many more conditions!
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Featured Presentation

Title: Weight loss with semaglutide is influenced by traditional metabolic risk factors and BMI-associated genetic variants (CME Credits)
Presented by: Matt Levy, PhD
Date: 11/8/2024
Time and Location: 11:30-11:45am MT, Room 501
Office hours (Booth #970): 11/7 - 3:30pm-4:30pm MT; 11/8 - 12:15pm-1:15pm MT

Platform Talks

Title: Introducing an efficient framework to evaluate oncology and cardiology gene-disease validity leveraging clinico-genomic biobank data
Presented by: Daniela Lacoboni, PhD
Date: 11/7/2024
Time and Location: 10:45am-11:00am MT, Room 405
Office hours (Booth #970): 11/7 - 11am-2pm MT


Title: Classification of rare nonsynonymous variants to identify individuals at low risk of disease: introducing variants of potential risk (CME Credits)
Presented by: Alexandre Bolze, PhD
Date: 11/7/2024
Time and Location: 11:30am-11:45am MT, Mile High Ballroom 2&3
Office hours (Booth #970): 11/7 - 12:30pm-1:15pm MT; 11/8 - 9:30am-10:15am MT

Title: Weight loss with semaglutide is influenced by traditional metabolic risk factors and BMI-associated genetic variants (CME Credits)
Presented by: Matthew Levy, PhD
Date: 11/8/2024
Time and Location: 11:30-11:45am MT, Room 501
Office hours (Booth #970): 11/7 - 3:30pm-4:30pm MT; 11/8 - 12:15pm-1:15pm MT

Title: Comparing scalable and automated vs. ACMG/AMP variant interpretation strategies for BRCA1 and BRCA2 in a large clinico-genomic cohort from six US-based health systems (CME Credits)
Presented by: Kelly Barrett, PhD
Date: 11/8/2024
Time and Location: 1:45pm-2:00pm MT, Four Seasons Ballroom 4
Office hours (Booth #970): 11/7 - 12:00pm-1:00pm MT; 11/8 - 2:30pm-3:30pm MT

Title: Finding the pathogenic variant in the haystack: using breast-cancer-related family history from electronic health records to identify patients who should be prioritized for genetic testing
Presented by: Daniel Kiser, MS University of Nevada Reno, School of Medicine
Date: 11/9/2024
Time and Location: 10:00am-10:15am MT, Room 505

Poster Presentations

Title: Retrospective study shows pharmacogenomic testing could reduce adverse events associated with clopidogrel use by 38%
Presented by: Natalie Telis, PhD & Nicole Washington, PhD
Date: 11/6/2024
Time and Location: 2:30pm-4:30pm MT, Board 7017W Main Poster Area

Title: Predicting coronary artery disease using an exome-based estimate of KIV-2 repeat count
Presented by: Natalie Telis, PhD
Date: 11/7/2024
Time and Location: 2:30pm-4:30pm MT, Board 5147T Main Poster Area
Office hours (Booth #970): 11/6 - 3:30pm-4:30pm MT

Title: Discovery of rare coding variants with loss of function effect using a sliding window technique on clinico genomic data
Presented by: Liz Cirulli, PhD
Date: 11/8/2024
Time and Location: 2:30pm-4:30pm MT, Board 4041F Main Poster Area
Office hours (Booth #970): 11/6 & 11/7 - 2:30pm-3:30pm MT

Title: Genetic study of Crohn’s disease in the US population
Presented by: Alexandre Bolze, PhD & Akwasi Asabere, PhD
Date: 11/8/2024
Time and Location: 2:30pm-4:30pm MT, Board 5060F Main Poster Area

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