05/26/2021
Hot Topics of the Day are picked by experts to capture the latest information and publications on public health genomics and precision health for various diseases and health topics. Sources include published scientific literature, reviews, blogs and popular press articles.
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Variants of concern are overrepresented among post-vaccination breakthrough infections of SARS-CoV-2 in Washington State
AE McEwen et al, MEDRXIV, May 25, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in Italy through phylogenomic inferences based on Hamming distances derived from functional annotations of SNPs, MNPs and InDels
AD Pasquale et al, MEDRXIV, May 25, 2021
An Issue of Concern: Unique Truncated ORF8 Protein Variants of SARS-CoV-2
SS Hasan et al, BIORXIV, May 25, 2021
Genomic Surveillance of COVID-19 Variants with Language Models and Machine Learning
S Nagpal et al, BIORXIV, May 25, 2021
COVID-19 in Amazonas, Brazil, was driven by the persistence of endemic lineages and P.1 emergence
FJ Naveca et al, Nature Medicine, May 25, 2021
Contact-tracing app curbed the spread of COVID in England and Wales
CJ Wang, Nature News, May 25, 2021
Impacts of social distancing policies on mobility and COVID-19 case growth in the US
GA Wellenius et al, Nat Comms, April 25, 2021
Demonstrating trustworthiness when collecting and sharing genomic data: public views across 22 countries
R Milne et al, Genome Medicine, May 25, 2021
Big data, artificial intelligence, and the opioid crisis
Lancet Digital Health editorial, June 1, 2021
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