2019 2020
JANUARY 2020 U-BRITE online platform for research utilizing biospecimens and data from AGHI launches
NOVEMBER 2020 AGHI flagship paper published in Genetics in Medicine: A state-based approach to genomics for rare disease and population screening
MARCH 2019 MD Learning Channel genetic website launched, offering free online CME opportunities to physicians
JULY 2020 Host Genomics of COVID-19 Study approved by UAB Institutional Review Board to provide genomic analysis of COVID-19 patients in Alabama
2019 2020
NOVEMBER 2019 6,000 AGHI participants enrolled
SEPTEMBER 2020 Whole genomic sequencing enrollment resumes at the Children’ s Health Research Unit, operating under revised COVID-19 precautions
MARCH 2020 AGHI population cohort enrollment suspended on March 13 due to COVID-19. Efforts to complete analysis for previously enrolled participants continue.
DECEMBER 2020
DECEMBER 2020 500 + biospecimens from COVID-19 patients shipped to the National Institutes of Health COVNET study, to identify common and rare germline genetic variants associated with susceptibility to severe or fatal COVID-19 disease
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