Items Tagged ‘#Dr. Yan Asmann’
March 19, 2021
Lack of diversity in genomic databases may affect therapy selection for minority groups
Low representation of minority groups in public genomic databases may affect therapy selection for Black patients with cancer, according to new Mayo Clinic research published in npj Precision Oncology. The researchers investigated the use of genomic databases and found that tumor mutation burden was significantly inflated in Black patients compared to White patients. As a […]
Tags: #Dr. Aaron Mansfield, #Dr. Mitesh Borad, #Dr. Yan Asmann, Dr. Alex Adjei, Dr. Leif Bergsagel, mayo clinic
September 11, 2019
Improving genomic data analysis – from soybeans to humans
Article by Colette Gallagher and Amy Clay-Moore When Daniel Wickland, Ph.D., was a predoctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he first worked to improve genomic data analysis for soybeans. But soon he shifted his focus, bringing his computer programming and informatics skills to work with Mayo Clinic and Illinois researchers to better […]
Tags: #Dr. Daniel Wickland, #Dr. Keith Knutson, #Dr. Liudmila Mainzer, #Dr. Matthew Hudson, #Dr. Yan Asmann, Alzheimer’s disease, Bioinformatics, center for individualized medicine, crop science, Genomic Sequencing, genomics, immunology