Special Issue just released of @WileyBiomedical Human Mutation “Matchmaker Exchange: Seven Years of Discovery and Collaboration” guest edited by Drs. Kym Boycott, @AdaHamosh and @HeidiRehmonlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/… (1/18)
A new, rare genetic disorder is the 1st human disease caused by loss of one copy of a long noncoding RNA gene. The family of Emma Broadbent, the first person diagnosed with the CHASERR-related disorder, was instrumental in the discovery & her diagnosis. broad.io/Chaserr
ALT Brian and Julia Broadbent are raising their daughters Claire, top left, and Emma, seated.
Excited to report our study in @NEJM on the discovery of deletions in a long noncoding RNA gene 🧬 (𝘊𝘏𝘈𝘚𝘌𝘙𝘙) as the cause of a newly defined human neurodevelopmental disorder 🧠. 🧵1/10 nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
ALT "Human genetics is the study of humans, by humans. It has been an incredible privilege to be both the subject and investigator in clinical genomics research efforts."
Professor James Lupski
Clinical Genomicist,
Baylor College of Medicine,
Texas Children’s Hospital,
Houston, Texas, USA
Special Issue just released of @WileyBiomedical Human Mutation “Matchmaker Exchange: Seven Years of Discovery and Collaboration” guest edited by Drs. Kym Boycott, @AdaHamosh and @HeidiRehmonlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/… (1/18)
“Genomics4RD: An integrated platform to share Canadian deep-phenotype and multiomic data for international rare disease gene discovery” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… reports on @C4RCanada web-accessible platform sharing Canadian phenotypic & multiomic data between researchers (17/18)
Thank you to all contributors to the special issue! Visit matchmakerexchange.org to learn more about Matchmaker Exchange and how it may fit into your work. There are many more gene-disease relationships yet to be discovered. (18/18)