Getting Personal: Omics Of The Heart

Jane Ferguson:                Hello and welcome to Getting Personal: Omics of the Heart, your podcast from Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine. I'm Jane Ferguson from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and this is episode 27 from April 2019.                                            This month, I talk to Riyaz Patel, the first author on not one, but two articles published this issue, presenting analyses from the GENIUS-CHD consortium. But before we get to the interview, let's review what else was published this month.                                            First up, we have a paper from Tamiel Turley, Timothy Olson and colleagues from the Mayo Clinic, entitled Rare Missense Variants in TLN1 Are Associated With Familial and Sporadic Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection. In this study, the authors were interested in identifying novel susceptibility genes for spontaneous coronary artery dissection or SCAD, which predominantly affects young women who appeared otherwise healthy. They conducted