ASHG 2026 Conference

The annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is the world’s largest gathering dedicated to human genetics.

The 2026 edition will take place from October 20 to 24 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal.

This year, several research teams using CARTaGENE data and biospecimens will be presenting their work. In total, 24 posters will showcase discoveries made possible through CARTaGENE resources.

Will you be attending?

Don’t miss these poster presentations featuring CARTaGENE-based research projects.

Have a great meeting!

The CARTaGENE team

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Wednesday, 2026-10-21
2:30 PM–4:30 PM

• Board 3008W: Expansion of the provincial carrier screening program for populations from Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Charlevoix, and Haute-Côte-Nord Regions (Québec, Canada)

Lab Bouchard

• Board 6041W: Leveraging a founder population to identify genetic modifiers of myotonic dystrophy type 1

Lab Girard

• Board 7006W: Bridging the generational gap: inferring rare variant transmission by applying ARG-genealogy alignment in a founder population

Lab Girard

• Board 8197W: A pangenomic approach reveals new structural variants associated with gene expression in the CARTaGENE cohort

Lab Lettre

• Board 8398W: Estimating the Prevalence of POLR3-Related Disorders by Integrating Genotype-Phenotype Evidence Across Clinically Curated and Expanded Variant Sets

Lab Mooser/Claude Bhérer

• Board 8447W: Polygenic risk score heterogeneity is structured across individuals and the genome: MoEPRS and MoEsaicPRS improve prediction across biobank traits

Lab Gravel

Thursday, 2026-10-22
4:15 PM–6:15 PM

• Board 1009T: Characterization of Oncogenetic Variations in the French-Canadian Population
• Board 1108T: Identification of new potentially pathogenic rare variants linked to Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean founder effect

Lab Girard

• Board 6043T: Identifying novel genes involved in Sleepwalking Disorder through
  Whole Exome Sequencing (WES)

Lab Tétreault

• Board 8259T: Individual and familial polygenic risk scores in patients and non-affected relatives in 48 multigenerational families affected by schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the Quebec founder population

Lab Maziade/Bureau

• Board 8308T: Sex-differential pleiotropic effects of HLA alleles on immune, thyroid, and lipid traits in a population-based Canadian cohort

Lab Taliun 

• Board 8311T: Sex-stratified assessment of the concordance between self-reported diagnoses and the administrative health databases across eight cardiovascular and neurological traits

Lab Gagliano-Taliun

• Board 8323T: Towards Equitable Glaucoma Risk Prediction: Polygenic Risk Score Calibration in Underrepresented and Admixed Ancestries

Lab MacGregor

Friday, 2026-10-23
2:30 PM–4:30 PM

• Board 1086F: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase gene mutations: Prevalence and mutational spectrum in a French-Canadian population and Phenome-wide Association Study

Lab Girard/Manousaki

• Board 1087F: Coupling whole-genome sequencing with 400-year genealogy uncovers actionable monogenic diabetes variants in French Canadians: the CARTaGENE cohort

Lab Taliun

• Board 7024F: Polygenic Risk Score Correction in a Founder Population: Comparing IBD-based PCoA and Standard PCA in the CARTaGENE Cohort

Lab  Girard

• Board 8062F: Development and validation of a sex-specific genotype-based coronary artery disease risk model for long-term prediction

Lab  Arsenault

• Board 8157F: Integrated genotyping, annotation and epigenetic characterization of transposable elements with GraffiTE v1.1

Lab Lettre

• Board 8260F: High lipoprotein(a) and coronary artery disease risk in the Quebec population

Lab Arsenault

• Board 8397F: Genetic insights into multisite chronic pain: defining the MCP-binary phenotype & advancing GWAS meta-analysis across biobanks

Lab Diatchenko/Grant

• Board 8407F: IBD-based identification of rare asthma variants in a founder population

Lab Girard

• Board 8436F: Optimizing genotype imputation strategies for heterogeneous multi-array biobanks

Lab Hussin

• Board 8441F: Pisces: a unified PCA-based framework for improved genetic ancestry estimation across heterogeneous genomic datasets

Lab Taliun

• Board 8446F: Retrospective modeling of rare variants: impact of including unaffected individuals and functional prioritization in a founder effect family cohort

Lab Girard