Dna Today: A Genetics Podcast

Enter a giveaway on our social media! Win free enrollment to a 3-hour course in the Allelica PRS clinical academy covering the research behind PRS to clinical applications. You can enter by looking for  us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. This has been posted at 9am on January 21st and will end on February 4th. Our guest this week is Giordano Bottà, a biologist and bioinformatician, who is joining us to discuss polygenic risk scores. Giordano earned a PhD in Public Health and he has extensive experience in analysis of large genomics dataset. During his career he has had the opportunity to work with some of the top genomics experts in the world at the University of Oxford, publishing in the journal Nature. He is a co-founder and CEO of Allelica, which created a software to help clinical genetics labs to perform polygenic risk score analysis.On This Episode We Discuss:Defining polygenic risk scores (PRS)? How PRSs are empowering the next generation of clinical genomics  Types o