The findings represent a significant advance toward development of more effective, targeted therapies for congenital diarrhea and enteropathies

The research is another step toward development of targeted therapies aimed at reducing the incidence and medical burden of this common condition.

Severe obesity — a condition of being 100 pounds or more overweight — has doubled in the United States over the past two decades to 9.2%, with the greatest increases among women and Latino populations.

The Vanderbilt Genetics Institute is the intellectual hub for genomics research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University.

The milestone creates one of the largest, most comprehensive clinical genomic datasets of its kind; multiomic data to be added in next phase of program.

Sarah Tishkoff described her groundbreaking research during a talk titled “African Evolutionary Genomics: Reconstructing Human Evolution and the Genetic Basis of Complex Adaptive Traits.”

Tishkoff's groundbreaking research at the University of Pennsylvania has broad implications for understanding and treating human disease.