Getting Personal: Omics Of The Heart

Jane Ferguson:                  Hi, everyone. Welcome to episode 35 of Getting Personal: Omics of the Heart, the podcast from Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine. I'm Jane Ferguson, an assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and an associate editor at Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine. This episode is first airing in December 2019. Let's see what we published this month.                                                 Our first paper is an “Integrated Multiomics Approach to Identify Genetic Underpinnings of Heart Failure and Its Echocardiographic Precursors: The Framingham Heart Study” from Charlotte Anderson, Ramachandran Vasan and colleagues from Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Denmark and Boston University.                                                 In this paper, the team investigated the genomics of heart failure, combining GWAS with methylation and gene expression data, to prioritize candidate genes. They analyzed four heart failure related and eig