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Velez Edwards named to Women’s Health Research leadership
Digna R. Velez Edwards, PhD, has been named director of Women’s Health Research, succeeding longtime director and founder, Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD, associate dean of Clinical and Translational…
New Methods Find Undiagnosed Genetic Diseases In Electronic Health Records
Patients diagnosed with heart failure, stroke, infertility and kidney failure could actually be suffering from rare and undiagnosed genetic diseases. And now researchers at Vanderbilt University…
NSAIDs, genetics and miscarriage
A certain genetic variant, in combination with the use of anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen during early pregnancy, may protect women from miscarriage.
BMI gene study expands to people of African ancestry
An international team of scientists, including six from Vanderbilt University, has identified the first unique genetic determinants of body mass index (BMI) in people of African ancestry.