Attending: What’s the drip? Me: These are my midnight blue Figs scrubs that I’m rocking with sky blue AllBird tree pipers and a light plume gray Patagonia vest! Attending: No I mean what is running through that patient’s new IV? Me: Oh that’s heparin. Attending: Me: Sorry.

🚨Happy #Hallogene22 🚨 and welcome to Bayeswatch! Our team is the elite of the elite. We protect the bay at all costs. 🦈 💥LIKE💥 this post so we can keep the coveted Hallogene the Trophy in Columbus! #genechat Augie-Sanford GCGP The Ohio State University College of Medicine Ohio State

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It’s now the ACMG78 but it feels like we JUST got the ACMG73 lol

“My job is just…gene”

New paper on the "Phenotypes of undiagnosed adults with actionable OTC and GLA variants," which examined the medical history of patients in the MGB and Penn biobanks with variants associated with OTC deficiency and Fabry disease, is out now. Read here: bit.ly/3DY2dW9

an absolute embarrassment. GCs have a history of being one of the most racist fields in healthcare and here we are perpetuating it with decisions like these. what a disingenuous group of people who think allyship is a trend that you can hop on as you please. #gcchat #genechat

A few excellent recent papers on important and often misunderstood population parameters in genetics. A short 🧵:

I know that the Broad Institute got so much praise for #gnomAD 4.0, but can we also shout out this BEAUTIFUL explanation on how they defined genetic ancestry??? Bc the girls LOVE to tussle, they went into DETAIL and this table was born! #genechat I STAN. gnomad.broadinstitute.org/news/2023-11-g…

A thread about our depraved healthcare system, and a plea. In 2021, my friend Carole was diagnosed with terminal stage four cancer. A single parent with two kids, she had just turned 43. In 2017, she had watched her brother Chris die of the same cancer. He too was in his 40s.

How did I just find out that Nature publishes weekly sci-fi stories?! is this news to anyone else or am I just way behind

An NIH advisory group announced today that they're recommending the agency boost its minimum #postdoc salary to $70,000, up from the current $56,484. Many postdocs feel "underpaid and overworked," a co-chair said. My latest for ScienceInsider: science.org/content/articl…

Neutropenia is common consult for heme/onc. We see neutropenic patients in clinic all the time. Here is a basic framework for neutropenia... #MedTwitter #MedX

For those of us interested in genes and kpop

1/10 [My first Twitter/X post] Our preprint about the joint statistical analysis of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network patients is finally out: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A potential role for centromere dysfunction in Down syndrome! We generated the first complete sequence of all three chr21 centromeres in an individual with Down syndrome & found that one centromere is ~11-fold smaller than usual and another has an atypical epigenetic landscape!

Dr Jerry Vockley taking us back to the basics. The metabolic wheel of fortune. SIMD ACMG

Does ACGC consider geographic location of programs applying for accreditation? Does having 5 programs all within 2 hours of each other actually serve our profession and students’ needs?