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

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…

🎙️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/

“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) rdcu.be/dt7ej

Wonderful to have our paper, "Inherited blood cancer predisposition through altered transcription elongation", published (open access) in Cell today! cell.com/cell/fulltext/… 🧵 (1/n)

🎙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/

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

✨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.

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…

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…

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

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!

🗣️ Breaking ground in pediatric cancer research! This #NationalCancerResearchMonth, we're proud to partner with Adam de Smith, PhD from Keck Medicine of USC, to uncover the roots of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children. Learn more about his efforts 👉 bit.ly/4ezRtOU

Glad to have presented my research at the AACR 's disparities conference. We leveraged the NAACCRegistry to see if Hispanic/Latinos have higher risk of leukemia across its molecular subtypes! Adam de Smith

🧵 Thrilled to share our latest in nature! We’ve mapped fetal blood development in Down syndrome (DS) using single-cell multi-omics, studying why children with DS face a 150-fold higher leukemia risk and blood abnormalities at birth. nature.com/articles/s4158…