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Meeting report: The Human Genome Meeting (HGM) 2019 in Seoul, Korea

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The 2019 Human Genome Meeting (HGM2019) of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) was held in Seoul, Korea, from 24–26 April, 2019, at Ewha Womans University on their beautiful campus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewha_Womans_University). The 23rd HGM was a truly international event, attracting some 507 registrants from 29 countries spanning six continents who interacted both formally and informally at four plenary lectures, ten parallel scientific sessions, ten ancillary events, such as workshops, luncheon sessions, two social events as well poster sessions, interactions with exhibitors, etc. (https://www.hugo-hgm.org/program/scientific). Furthermore, the HGM in Seoul featured 42 international and seven local distinguished speakers highlighting the worldwide draw of this annual meeting.

Diana Bianchi (National Institutes of Health, NIH, USA) presented in her lecture entitled “Prenatal Genomic Medicine: Transforming Obstetrical Practice and New Biological insights” her view on the biggest example of the impact of genomics in clinical medicine. The presentation was based on the description of the changes in obstetric practice as a result of the application of noninvasive prenatal testing. The reduction of invasive diagnostic procedures is an important and relevant goal since miscarriages as consequence of older procedures would be eliminated. It is important though, that any false positive results (a very low percentage, indeed) may be a probable finding, to be verified with other methodologies before arriving at a final conclusion and making clinical decisions.

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We thank Les Biesecker, Jennifer Lee, Cai Long, Harry Ostrer, Eran Segal, Efrat Shema, and Cisca Wijmenga for helpful comments on the write-up. JKVR is supported by IDFEC, the International Development Fund for Economy and Culture.

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  1. INBIOMED, Facultad de Medicina, UBA-CONICET and Genotipificacion, DAC, CEMIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Angela Solano

  2. Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Giuseppe Novelli

  3. Neuromed, IRCCS, Pozzilli, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Isernia, Italy

    Giuseppe Novelli

  4. RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan

    Shruti Baghat & Piero Carnici

  5. Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, Netherlands

    Gert-Jan van Ommen

  6. Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM), James Cook University, Smithfield, QLD, 4878, Australia

    Juergen K. V. Reichardt

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Solano, A., Novelli, G., Baghat, S. et al. Meeting report: The Human Genome Meeting (HGM) 2019 in Seoul, Korea. Eur J Hum Genet 28, 122–125 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-019-0461-y

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