The misleading marketing of prenatal screening tests as pseudo-diagnostic results in real harm, as this Times article so thoroughly reveals. This is not just a failure of patient communication, it’s a failure of refereeing the language used to market testing products. #DEB263

COVID vaccination coverage in pregnant women has remained low in the US, but a new national cohort study from Scotland reaffirms how dangerous COVID can be to unvaccinated mothers and their babies. Yet another example of the consequences of anti-vax rhetoric. #DEB263

Solid overview here of ongoing development in the COVID vaccine space. It's easy to get Pfizer-Moderna tunnel vision in the states, but if we want to transition into an endemic COVID future we'll need as many weapons in our anti-viral arsenal as we can get. #DEB263

Delighted to share our publication in Genome Biology introducing NHIP, a novel gene locus associated with autism, discovered in placenta rdcu.be/cG8u4 NHIP stands for neuronal hypoxia inducible, placenta associated 1/7

Autism Spectrum Disorder development is often the result of an interplay between genetic and environmental factors, but what can epigenetics tell us about that interplay? Read more in mine and Dr. Janine LaSalle Current Opinion article! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35962910/

I'm delighted to share our latest publication describing the results of an experiment that is not possible to do in human, asking the question: Can the placental (and cell free fetal DNA) methylome predict brain and behavior of the offspring? nature.com/articles/s4146…