🤔 are saliva or blood samples better for microarray? Our latest European Journal of Human Genetics: we compare results from 270 children who had both: 20 extra diagnoses using saliva due to mosaic CNVs 🔍🧬 Congrats Victorian Clinical Genetics Services (VCGS) David Francis Meaghan Wall Seb Lunke 👏 rdcu.be/c0FwO

Uh oh, your Spotify Wrapped doesn’t look great. Let’s try to do better next year so our opossum stops getting angry. Learn more about the importance of diversity in genomic studies in our fact sheet: go.usa.gov/xtkAp

What’s heavier: a protein or the mRNA that encodes it?

A good joke my son told me (he may have come up with this himself in bio class): What did chlorophyll call their imaginary friend? A pigment of their imagination. Here's a DALL-E 2 picture we made of "an oil painting of a fancy chloroplast in a suit"

Super cool article by National Human Genome Research Institute colleagues on the genetics of dog behavior (one fascinating thing they saw: "a sheepdog-associated enrichment for interrelated axon guidance functions") cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

"Unless things change dramatically, the millions of people #CRISPR could save will never benefit from it. We must, and we can, build a world with #CRISPR for all." #healthjustice Institute for Geographic Information Science The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/12/09/opi…

.@Genome_gov’s Cynthia Tifft runs a gene therapy clinical trial for children with GM1 gangliosidosis. Fewer than 5% of rare disorders have effective treatments, but after working with her young patient Jojo, Cynthia’s team has treated 10 more children with this condition.

Here, I said it and I am saying it again.

NHGRI’s Clinical Director Benjamin Solomon first fell in love with genetics and genomics in the 7th grade. In medical school, he admired geneticists who were determined to help diagnose patients.

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