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09:00 – 10:30 hrs | Concurrent Symposia S21-S24 & Educational Sessions E15-E16
Room: Hall 3
Chairs: Christian Schaaf
S21.1 Lumping vs. splitting – how to approach defining a disease for accurate curation
Courtney Thaxton;
United States
S21.2 International efforts for gene curation and the interpretation of genome variation
Julia Foreman;
United Kingdom
S21.3 A framework for an evidence-based gene list relevant to autism spectrum disorder
Jacob Vorstman;
Canada
Room: Clyde Auditorium
Chairs: Tania Attie-Bitach and Raquel Silva
S22.1 Prenatal exome sequencing – facing uncertainty
Antoni Borrell;
Spain
S22.2 AI in fetal imaging: a window to the future
John Simpson;
United Kingdom
S22.3 Decision making around prenatal genomic tests
Melissa Hill;
United Kingdom
Room: Hall 2
Chairs: Serena Nik-Zainal
S23.1 Hidden germline variants in Lynch syndrome
Richarda de Voer;
Netherlands
S23.2 The role of untranslated region variants that alter translational regulation in cancer
Nicky Whiffin;
United Kingdom
S23.3 Genome-wide analysis of somatic noncoding mutation patterns in cancer
Felix Ditlein;
United States
Room: Lomond Auditorium
Chairs: Francesca Forzano and Rhys Dore
S24.1 Economics of Precision Medicine and Genomic Technologies
Ilias Goranitis;
Australia
S24.2 The economics of genomics within resource-limited environments
George Patrinos;
Greece
S24.3 Genetics and economic inequality
Pietro Biroli;
Italy
Room: Hall 5
Chairs: Gemma Chandratillake
E15.1 Genetic Diagnosis of Hearing Loss
Barbara Vona;
Germany
E15.2 Gene Therapies for Hearing Loss: current promises and future challenges
Aziz El Amraoui;
France
Room: M1
Chairs: TBA
E16.1 Realising the benefit to healthcare through population-wide application of polygenic risk scores
Gil McVean;
United Kingdom
E16.2 Polygenic risk score as a tool for predication of AF, SCD
Patricia Munroe;
United Kingdom
10:30 – 11:00 hrs | Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 hrs | Concurrent Sessions C24-C29 from submitted abstracts
Room: Hall 5
Chairs: tba
C24.1 Clinical, genetic and molecular delineation of KPTN-related disorder in humans and mice identifies mTOR inhibition as a candidate therapeutic approach
Lettie Rawlins, United Kingdom
C24.2 PhenomAD-NDD: the Phenomics Aggregation Database of comorbidities in 42,411 pediatric individuals with NeuroDevelopmental Disorders
Alexander Dingemans, Netherlands
C24.3 Biallelic variants in ITFG2, a subunit of the KICSTOR complex, affect mTOR signaling pathway and lead to a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder
Elisa Cali, United Kingdom
C24.4 Biallelic variants in BRF2 are associated with craniofacial anomalies and cognitive impairment
Sissy Bassani, Switzerland
C24.5 Utility of DNA methylation episignatures in neurodevelopmental disorders: from variant classification to new diagnoses and novel episignature discovery
Slavica Trajkova, Italy
C24.6 Epileptogenic mosaic brain malformations: a single-cell and spatial transcriptomic landscape
Sara Baldassari, France
Room: Clyde Auditorium
Chairs: tba
C25.1 Increasing the diagnostic yield in the 100,000 Genomes Project through Diagnostic Discovery
Susan Walker, United Kingdom
C25.2 Systematic Pan-European reanalysis of 6,004 genetically undiagnosed rare disease families yields 506 new diagnoses
Wouter Steyaert, Netherlands
C25.3 MANE Select in 2023: expanding the joint NCBI and EMBL-EBI transcript set
Adam Frankish, United Kingdom
C25.4 Guideline for interpretation of proteomics data as functional evidence (PS3) in the context of the ACMG/AMP sequence variant interpretation framework
Fatemeh Peymani, Germany
C25.5 SEALigHTS: An innovative, high throughput targeted technique to study messenger RNAs and circular RNAs.
Corentin Levacher, France
C25.6 Diagnostic analysis of RNA splicing reclassifies 50% of candidate pathogenic splicing variants
Mark Drost, Netherlands
Room: Hall 2
Chairs: tba
C26.1 Deciphering the genetic architecture of retinal vascular traits and their potential to predict cardiovascular disease risk
Sven Bergmann, Switzerland
C26.2 Genetic analysis in 1.9 million individuals reveals new insights into genetic variation underlying heart failure susceptibility
Albert Henry, United Kingdom
C26.3 Copy-number variants as modulators of common disease susceptibility
Chiara Auwerx, Switzerland
C26.4 Whole genome burden testing in 333,100 individuals identifies novel rare non-coding associations with height
Gareth Hawkes, United Kingdom
C26.5 Genetics of endocrine-related brain anatomy using biomedical image derived phenotypes
Hannah Currant, Denmark
C26.6 Large-scale blood mitochondrial genome wide associations study provides novel insights into mitochondrial disease related traits
Michael Weedon, United Kingdom
Room: Lomond Auditorium
Chairs: tba
C27.1 TET1 and TDG suppress inflammatory response in intestinal tumorigenesis: implications for colorectal tumors with the CpG Island Methylator Phenotype
Rossella Tricarico, Italy
C27.2 Merging patient-derived iPSCs and organ-on-a-chip technology to disclose the genesis of Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer
Daniel A. Ferreira, Portugal
C27.3 Mutation rate variability at the sub-gene scale due to distinct DNA methylation gradients.
David Mas-Ponte, Spain
C27.4 PBRM1 and KDM5C loss modulate the tumor immune microenvironment of clear cell renal carcinoma
Carlos Valdivia, Spain
C27.5 Reactivation of human fetal microRNAs in liver cancer
Nikita Telkar, Canada
C27.6 CTNNA1 germline variants with a premature termination codon are a risk factor for development of early-onset Diffuse Gastric Cancer
Silvana Lobo, Portugal
Room: M1
Chairs: tba
C28.1 Optimising dynamic consent platforms: learnings from evaluation of ‘CTRL’ in a cardiovascular genetic disorders cohort
Matilda Haas, Australia
C28.2 Long-term clinical follow-up for DECIDE: a patient decision-aid for genomic sequencing
Shelin Adam, Canada
C28.3 Development and Implementation of Novel Chatbot-based Genomic Research Consent
Eric Vilain, United States
C28.4 Digitalising genetic cascade screening in cardiogenetics: introducing a new digital family clinic
Marlies van Lingen, Netherlands
C28.5 The use of AI in variant interpretation in newborn screening: Professionals’ perspectives
Mirjam Plantinga, Netherlands
C28.6 Data counselling: providing support for decision-making about genomic and health data sharing for research
Claudia deFreitas, Portugal
Room: Forth Room
Chairs: tba
C29.1 Provision of a diagnostic service for mosaic skin disorders; experience from the first 500 cases including novel variants and mutational hot-spots
Thomas Cullup, United Kingdom
C29.2 ZIC1 variants in neurodevelopmental disorder with and without craniosynostosis
Laura Watts, United Kingdom
C29.3 Skeletal phenotype of a novel Smad4 mouse model for Myhre syndrome
Alice Costantini, France
C29.4 Bi-allelic TUFT1 variants cause woolly hair, superficial skin fragility and desmosomal defects
Adam Jackson, United Kingdom
C29.5 Disease-specific biomarkers of pathogenic HRAS variants in skin
Theresa Nauth, Germany
C29.6 Biallelic truncating variants in VGLL2 cause syngnathia in humans
Jeanne Amiel, France
12:30 – 13:30 hrs | Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:15 hrs | Plenary Sessions PL4
Room: Hall 3
Chairs: Valérie Cormier Daire and Alexandre Reymond
PL4.1 Mendel Lecture – DNA: what is it trying to tell us?
Shankar Balasubramanian;
United Kingdom
14:15 – 15:45 hrs | Plenary Sessions PL5-PL7
Room: Hall 3
Chairs: Valérie Cormier Daire and Alexandre Reymond
PL5.1 ESHG Education Award
Han Brunner;
Netherlands
Room: Hall 3
Chairs: Valérie Cormier Daire and Alexandre Reymond
PL6.1 ELPAG Award
Tara Clancy;
United Kingdom
Room: Hall 3
EJHG-SN Citation Awards
ESHG Early Career Awards
European DNA Day Contest
Closing Address
*An asterisk indicates that the presenter is an Early Career Award Candidate
Note that the programme is subject to change, and will be updated continuously up to the conference