The MyVariant team is a group centered at the University of Washington dedicated to helping patients and families understand unique genetic variants. Our work has been supported by the University of Washington, Department of Laboratory Medicine, by a Grant Innovator grant from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, and by the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine.
Who We Are
Leadership
Brian Shirts, MD, PhD
Dr. Shirts is an Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington. His research focuses on integrating complex genetics knowledge into clinical care. His main goal is to help prevent all hereditary cancer. He is currently working to improve strategies to help people with inherited cancer risk connect with close and distant relatives, classify rare variants, and to improve how genetic information is presented to both patients and clinicians. In his clinical role, he is one of a small group of geneticists and laboratory pathologists who supervise BROCA and ColoSeqTM tests for hereditary cancer risk at the University of Washington.
Annie T. Chen, PhD
Contributors
Nandana Rao, MPH
Jennifer Huey, MS, LCGC
Carmen Ng, MPH
Tim Bergquist
Aarti Swaminathan, MS
Lauren Thomas Garrett, MS, LCGC
Nathan Hickman
Content Review
Laura Amendola, MS, LCGC
Robin Bennett, MS, LCGC, PhD Hon
Deborah Bowen, PhD
Malia Fullerton, PhD
Angela Jacobson, MS, LCGC