From Genetic Discoveries to Gene Function in Human Diseases Conference: What have we learned after two decades of GWAS discovery?

Memo

This conference aims to include recent progress in translating human genetic discoveries into functional characterization of genome wide association study (GWAS) regions that encode risk for complex human diseases. This symposium will highlight a number of exemplary functional studies of GWAS loci, examine how single cell data can accelerate translation of genetic associations, and how we can expand our catalogs of causal genes using the new CRISPR-Cas9 screening tools.