Ian Thompson

Aug 29, 2024 | dailyrepublic.com | Ian Thompson

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — After 30 years of service at Travis Air Force Base, the Thursday training flight of KC-10 Extender Tail No. 001948 was one of the last for the base's KC-10 fleet. It is one of the few KC-10s left at Travis and, in less than a month, it will be flown to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona where it will be stored along with hundreds of other aircraft.

Jun 7, 2024 | dailyrepublic.com | Ian Thompson

The 17-year-old hoped that this will inspire her younger siblings to reach the same goal, one of whom is already attending Wood this year. She admits to a bit of stage fright at this passage in her life, confessing that her biggest graduation fear is tripping on her way to get her diploma. A good early evening breeze and temperatures in their 70’s greeted her and 349 of her Wood peers as they gathered at one end of a stadium packed on both sides with friends and families.

Nov 9, 2023 | nature.com | Thomas Sellers Jr. |David Hunter |Ian Thompson |Robert Hamilton |Ana Francisca Vega |Eric A. Klein | +98 more

The transferability and clinical value of genetic risk scores (GRSs) across populations remain limited due to an imbalance in genetic studies across ancestrally diverse populations. Here we conducted a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 156,319 prostate cancer cases and 788,443 controls of European, African, Asian and Hispanic men, reflecting a 57% increase in the number of non-European cases over previous prostate cancer genome-wide association studies. We identified 187 novel risk variants for prostate cancer, increasing the total number of risk variants to 451. An externally replicated multi-ancestry GRS was associated with risk that ranged from 1.8 (per standard deviation) in African ancestry men to 2.2 in European ancestry men. The GRS was associated with a greater risk of aggressive versus non-aggressive disease in men of African ancestry (P = 0.03). Our study presents novel prostate cancer susceptibility loci and a GRS with effective risk stratification across ancestry groups. A multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of prostate cancer performed in 156,319 cases and 788,443 controls identifies 187 novel risk variants associated with the disease. Genetic risk scores associated with overall risk, and risk of aggressive disease in men of African ancestry.

Sep 18, 2023 | dailyrepublic.com | Ian Thompson

FAIRFIELD — California Forever, the city proposed for land southeast of Travis Air Force Base by the enigmatic Flannery Associates and its Silicon Valley billionaire backers, is not the first ambitious attempt to develop that part of Solano County. One attempt was before California became a state and the much more expansive one occurred just after the turn of the 20th century. Only an empty adobe home remains of the first.

May 28, 2023 | dailyrepublic.com | Ian Thompson