Jennifer Dungan received pilot grant funding for her study entitled "Female-specific genomic risk score prediction of acute coronary syndrome: a pilot study" from the Precision Health Collaborative Grant RFA. She will work with collaborators Dr. Xuejun Qin from computational biology and Abanish Singh from behavioral medicine to accomplish the aims of generating a female-specific genetic risk score based on her earlier discovery work in genome wide association studies, and testing the association of the genomic risk score with females’ risk for acute coronary syndrome among the Duke CATHGEN and dbGaP datasets. The findings will serve as preliminary data for an R01 submission in Spring 2017.

The Precision Health RFA was jointly sponsored by Duke University School of Nursing Center for Nursing Research and Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Personalized Medicine, and will be a recurring collaborative grant call.