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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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