Dr. Carvajal-Carmona was invited to speak on February 25 at the 14th Annual International Congress of Human Genetics (ICHG) Conference (ICHG2023) in Cape Town, South Africa.
He delivered a talk in Session 17 – Predicting Phenotypes for Polygenic Traits in Diverse Populations. His talk was titled “Developing Effective Polygenic Risk Scores for Cancer in Latin American Populations” – discussing our work on developing polygenic risk score models for Breast cancer, Colorectal cancer, and Gastric cancer in Latino populations.