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Dr. Sarah Kim-Hellmuth

Dr. Sarah Kim-Hellmuth
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Scientific Lecture: Sarah Kim-Hellmuth

Understanding the Diversity of Genetic Effects on Gene Expression in Health and Disease

Dr. Sarah Kim-Hellmuth
Foto: Privat

Scientific Lecture: Sarah Kim-Hellmuth

Understanding the Diversity of Genetic Effects on Gene Expression in Health and Disease

Termin:

04.10.2022, 14 Uhr

The lecture is aimed at scientists and students and is hosted by Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH).

Online-Lecture. Please register here.


In cooperation with the Translation-Hub Multi-Omics of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) the Schering Stiftung presents a scientific lecture by this year’s Friedmund Neumann Prize laureate Dr. Sarah Kim-Hellmuth.

Over the past 17 years, genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of genetic variants robustly associated with complex traits and diseases. Characterizing cell type- and context-specific effects of genetic variants is crucial for understanding biological processes that underlie these genetic associations to disease. One approach to address this challenge is to map genetic effects on the transcriptome across numerous conditions. In this talk, I will discuss our work within the Genotype-Tissue Expression consortium, which has built the most comprehensive atlas to date of expression and splicing quantitative trait loci in cis (cis-QTLs) across human tissues. Using RNA-sequencing data from 17,382 samples across 49 tissues of 838 individuals with genome sequencing data, we gain insights into the tissue-, cell type-, sex- and age-specificity of cis-QTLs at an unprecedented breadth and depth. Taking into account this context-specificity of cis-QTLs significantly improves our understanding of the underlying mechanism of genetic risk to disease, which can ultimately inform management of disease risk and treatment.

The lecture is aimed at a scientific audience.

Sarah Kim-Hellmuth 

Preisträger*in

Die Ärztin und Forschungsgruppenleiterin erhält den Friedmund Neumann Preis für ihre bahnbrechenden Arbeiten zur Erforschung des genetischen Einflusses auf die Variabilität der Genaktivität im Menschen.

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Understanding the Diversity of Genetic Effects on Gene Expression in Health and Disease

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