#Genetic

Dr Benjamin 'Ward Viking' Janaway 💙

drjanaway

Question to the general public. How do you perceive the cause of mental illness? Let me know your thoughts and please retweet. The evidence base suggests that it is a

Overpay Vaccinators

GarettJones

If you decide to have kids, is it good to raise them to be pro-social, kind, anti-racist?Of course it is.And if science makes it possible to use IVF preimplantation diagnosis

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D

RVAwonk

The Pentagon issued a similar warning about for-profit genetic testing companies back in 2019, and COVID-19 is reigniting those concerns, for good reason. HIPAA doesn’t apply here, there are no

Elizabeth Fieg

ElizFiegCGC

Less than an hour into the @TheACMG session on #HR3235 and it's been nothing but inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and veiled insults. Here are some of the most outrageous statements being made

Reconsidering Cinema

coenesqued

Horror PastoralTourists enter into a wilderness and encounter something ancient but disturbingly familiar. The inhabitants are seen as simple, even inbred, but connected in ways the interlopers are not. There

John Hogenesch

jbhclock

Who likes great COVID news? I’m going to tell you anyway…Telemedicine…(thread/hilo 1/n) 2/n Here’s a terrific paper from my colleague @Prada2013 on international telemedicine in genetic disorders.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/

Aishwarya Arjunan, MS, MPH, CGC,CPH (she/her/hers)

aishuarjun

Let's go! @quidditch424 #NSGC20 What's at stake here? Black women are less likely to participate in genetic risk assessment & counseling. Less likely than white women to know about risk

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

So a new study claims #SARSCoV2 can integrate into human DNA genome. Semi-doubtful. David Baltimore, a virologist who won the Nobel Prize, describes the findings as “unexpected” & notes

Ryan Reeves

investing_city

Genomics Thread #5We've already laid the groundwork for understanding DNA, and some parts of the sequencing value chain but now let's talk about genetic testing... 1/ You can think of

Gita Gnanadesikan

g_gnanadesikan

1. Phenotypically diverse, dogs are ideal subjects for exploring the genetic bases of cognition & behavior. We combined cognitive data from #CitizenScience project @Dognition & breed-average genetic data (Parker et

David Grainger

sciencescanner

1. Lots of the negativity comes from comparison to flu, where we need a seasonal vaccine.BUT flu has a much higher rate of genetic drift, due to its split genome

@ijbailey

ijbailey

Kmele acknowledges the racial disparities but keeps saying that race isn't genetic. Well, so what? Just because it's not genetic doesn't mean it isn't real nonetheless. What does a debate

The Disruptive Physician

DocEvenhouse

Quick thread on genetics and epigenetics and an mRNA vaccinein 1953, Watson and Crick took credit re: the double helix of DNA. The theory of genetic inheritance took hold. The

Barton

Barton_options

1/ Fallacy of applying population fatality rate to an individual.Bad statistics. —> bad decision makingAssuming that 3month into the future, the infection fatality rate of COVID19 for 30-45yo male in

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Know very tempting to feel nervous about variants. Please don't: 1) RNA viruses do mutate and those more fit spread more readily; 2) SARS-CoV-2 has much lower mutational rate than

Dr. Paige Harden

kph3k

ICYMI*, we had a new paper come out in @NatureGenet last week: a GWAS of "noncognitive skills," a construct that nearly everyone can agree is important, but no one can

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