Getting Personal: Omics Of The Heart

Jane Ferguson:                 Hello, welcome to Getting Personal: Omics of the Heart. It is June 2018, and this is podcast episode 17. I'm Jane Ferguson, an assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and a proponent of precision medicine, genomics, and finding ways to prevent and treat heart disease. Jane Ferguson:                 This podcast is brought to you by Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, and the AHA Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine. Jane Ferguson:                 For our interview this month, early career member, Jennie Lin talked to Beth McNally about science and careers in genomic medicine. We'll have more on that later but first I want to tell you about the cool papers we published in the journal this month. Jane Ferguson:                 First up, Orlando Gutierrez, Marguerite Irvin, Jeffrey Kopp, Cheryl Winkler, and colleagues from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the NIH, published an article entitled APOL1 Nephropathy Risk Variant