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🎧 AI and the Genetic Revolution

🎧 AI and the Genetic Revolution

My conversation with Stephen Hsu

Azeem Azhar
Aug 19, 2019
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Hi,

Here is my full discussion with Stephen Hsu, theoretical physicist, genomics researcher, and the founder of Genomic Prediction.

In this fascinating conversation, we discuss:

  • The super Moore’s law of genomic sequencing across the last 20 years.

  • The process behind genomic sequencing.

  • How learning algorithms are used in genomic sequencing to calculate polygenic scores.

  • FDA approval of the first genetic treatment for monogenic conditions – and the ongoing work towards developing treatments for polygenic conditions like diabetes and cancers.

  • Rigorous peer-review process and predictor validation across sample population.

  • Commercialisation of mono- and polygenic disease risk prediction in IVF, and the lines drawn by the medical and scientific communities around the provision of information types.

  • How might this technology exacerbate existing social inequalities? Is this just an issue of access, or does it go further?

  • Developing the best protocols for governance and regulation of genomic technolog…

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