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Martin Kennedy

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DNA and all its possibilities

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Martin Kennedy @geneticsprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Synonymous variants can impact on disease, in this case via altered splicing: A synonymous single nucleotide variant on the FAM20C gene causes non-lethal Raine syndrome url: academic.oup.com/hmg/article-...
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A synonymous single nucleotide variant on the FAM20C gene causes non-lethal Raine syndrome
Abstract. Raine syndrome (RNS) is an autosomal recessive neonatal osteosclerotic bone dysplasia that usually results in death in the postnatal period. Pati
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The most interesting report of the week (IMHO) 🧵
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Martin Kennedy @geneticsprof.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Great read…. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/15-...
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A deeply frustrating line-by-line reading of Casey Costello’s letter to Health NZ
Does the associate minister of health know that sex and gender are two different things? Her letter suggests no.
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Oxford Nanopore @nanoporetech.com · 07/04/2025
“There are regions of the genome I didn’t even realise I was missing". At #ACMG, Dr Wendy Chung shared how her team is using nanopore sequencing to help uncover answers in unsolved rare disease cases—highlighting a 24% increase in diagnostic yield across one cohort: youtube.com/watch?v=f5YX... 1/2
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Diagnosing the undiagnosed with long-read genome data | ACMG | Corporate Satellite Wendy Chung
YouTube video by Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Update on measles in the US, cases and deaths, in context of vaccine introduction
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Another $2.6 billion in cuts to NIH are coming by next Tuesday www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/n... The shredded image fits
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Trump administration orders NIH to eliminate $2.6 billion in federal contracts
At a chaotic time, the NIH is given a deadline of April 8 to make a 35% cut in services that may include specimen storage, genetic counseling, and administration.
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Martin Kennedy @geneticsprof.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
23andMe plans to sell its huge genetic database: could science benefit? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Welcome to you, goodbye to your data....
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23andMe plans to sell its huge genetic database: could science benefit?
Following the firm’s bankruptcy, researchers hope that they will still be able to access the valuable data set even if it is sold to new owners.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The frequently used medical term "heart failure" is awful and needs to be replaced www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org
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EDGI-NZ @edgi-nz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
For those who want to know more about our research programme that seeks to understand the genetics associated with eating disorders inclusive of anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and ARFID, check out our website edgi.nz We have all sorts of information and blogs related this to our research.
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Please take our survey to help us understand more about eating disorders.
The Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI) is the world's largest genetic investigation into eating disorders ever performed. The local arm of EDGI aims to identify hundreds of genes that influen...
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