Mahmoud Koko, MBBS, Dr rer nat, will discuss findings from a meta-analysis of two large autism cohorts investigating the extent to which damaging coding variants influence a person's chances of having an autism diagnosis, and whether this influence varies by sex.

José A. Rodríguez-Martínez, Associate Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, will discuss their recent work on using computational models to identify cardiovascular disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that alter the DNA binding of the human cardiac transcription factor GATA4, and validated these findings through in vitro and cellular experiments​.

Dr. Rebecca Reimers will discuss genome-based newborn screening for severe, actionable, childhood genetic diseases in a NICU pilot study.

Dr. Gunn will discuss findings from a study leveraging data from Million Veterans Program and All of Us Research Program to compare methods for building polygenic scores (PGS) for multi-ancestry populations across multiple traits.

Co-first authors Drs. Kullo and Nelson will present an introduction and overview of the NIH-funded PRIMED Consortium, which is working to improve polygenic risk prediction of a range of health outcomes across diverse, global populations. The presentation will cover design and rationale, organization and progress of Consortium activities, methodological innovations, and initial Consortium findings and products.