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. 2022 Mar;30(3):252-255.
doi: 10.1038/s41431-021-01019-0. Epub 2022 Jan 14.

The Young Geneticists Network and the ESHG-Young committee, a forward-looking international community

Florence Riccardi  1   2 , Ruta Marcinkute  3 , Celia Azevedo Soares  4   5 , Patricia Stefana Calapod  6 , Juliana Miranda Cerqueira  7   8 , Elena Avram  9 , Can Ding  10 ; ESHG-Young committee
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The Young Geneticists Network and the ESHG-Young committee, a forward-looking international community

Florence Riccardi et al. Eur J Hum Genet. 2022 Mar.
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The authors declare no competing interests.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1. First steps and achievements of the YGN and ESHG-Young.
A Timeline of the different steps that led to the creation of the YGN and ESHG-Young. As early as 2017, the project to develop an international community of young geneticists was presented at different ERN-ITHACA and ESHG meetings. Then, it became a Facebook® group in 2018 and an official committee within the ESHG in 2019. From 2020 onwards, ESHG-Y has been involved in managing sessions (workshop and educational sessions) at ESHG conferences. B Screenshot of the ESHG-Y educational session at the 2021 ESHG conference entitled “Human organoids as genetic disease models”. C Elected members of ESHG-Y committee since 2019. Abbreviations: ERN-ITHACA European Reference Network for Intellectual disability, Telehealth, Autism and Congenital Anomalies; YGN Young Geneticists Network; ESHG European Society of Human Genetics; ESHG-Y European Society of Human Genetics-Young.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2. Worldwide distribution of YGN members.
A World map of the YGN members. The network gathers 1377 members from 101 countries or regions in July 2021. B   Number of YGN members by country or region. Note that 42% (n = 583) of the YGN members belong to 24 member states of the European Union, marked in italic, and shaded in light gray.
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