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Sarah Flanagan

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Professor and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow | Hyperinsulinism Genes | Exeter Centre for Hyperinsulinism Genetics | University of Exeter #Congenitalhyperinsulinism #genetics #genomics #translation

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Sarah Flanagan @sarah-flanagan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Excited to share our new paper in @eBioMedicine We used routinely collected NGS data to detect low-level mosaic variants in #congenitalhyperinsulinism. Variants at 1–8% VAF can be found in blood, but need careful validation to confirm true positives. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Low-level mosaic variants causing the pancreatic disease congenital hyperinsulinism can be detected from blood DNA
A substantial proportion of individuals with a well-defined monogenic disorder remain without a genetic diagnosis. Low-level mosaic pathogenic variant…
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Sarah Flanagan @sarah-flanagan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Grateful to have been invited to attend the Kohha-Der family conference in Antalya and to learn from families living with the congenital Hyperinsulinism
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Sarah Flanagan @sarah-flanagan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Exeter leads rare disease global genetic testing project, improving access and saving young lives  news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
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Exeter leads rare disease global genetic testing project, improving access and saving young lives
An international partnership designed to improve equality in access to genomic medicine for a rare disease has now provided potentially life-saving genetic testing for over 1,100 families across the w...
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Sarah Flanagan @sarah-flanagan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Great to see this paper out! #congenitalhyperinsulinism is a life threatening condition with high risk of neurodevelopmental delay, much more research is needed in this area to help improve patient outcomes @chcharityuk.bsky.social
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Nature Reviews Endocrinology @natrevendo.nature.com · 18/04/2026
ICYMI: New content online: The effect of hypoglycaemia on neurodevelopment: insights from congenital hyperinsulinism
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The effect of hypoglycaemia on neurodevelopment: insights from congenital hyperinsulinism
Nature Reviews Endocrinology, Published online: 16 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41574-026-01253-wInfants exposed to hypoglycaemia are at risk of neuroglycopenia and long-term neurodisability. Individuals with congenital hyperinsulinism provide a unique opportunity to gain insights into relevant biological pathways and outcomes. Such insights could transform clinical care for infants at risk of hypoglycaemia from a variety of genetic and environmental aetiologies.
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Sarah Flanagan @sarah-flanagan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Pleased to be able to offer a summer placement at the Exeter Centre for Hyperinsulinism Genetics through this scheme. The Research Access Placements programme is open to undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds @gensocuk.bsky.social
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Sarah Flanagan @sarah-flanagan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Another huge team effort! We’ve detected disease-causing low-level mosaic variants in the blood of people with #congenitalhyperinsulinism, meaning that more patients who haven’t had surgery can now get a genetic diagnosis without pancreatic tissue testing.
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Sarah Flanagan @sarah-flanagan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Our preprint is out :-)
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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A 94-bp Deletion in the Promoter of the Beta-Cell Disallowed gene SLC16A1 causing Adult-onset Hyperinsulinism www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Sarah Flanagan @sarah-flanagan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
What a great #ESPE #ESE meeting in Copenhagen. Pleased to have been given 2 opportunities to showcase the team’s work and also managed to squeeze in some sightseeing. The highlight was though talking to some of the wonderful clinicians who have referred patients for #HI genetic testing in Exeter.
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Sarah Flanagan @sarah-flanagan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Great to see a parliamentary debate focussing on some of the many challenges faced by families living with #congenitalhyperinsulinism   Really pleased that the great work of the Exeter NHS Genomics lab and research team were also acknowledged 🧬 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Characterization of Congenital Hyperinsulinism in Argentina: Clinical Features, Genetic Findings, and Treatment Outcomes www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Nature @nature.com · 26/02/2025
Nature research paper: Rare disease gene association discovery in the 100,000 Genomes Project go.nature.com/41jAqdQ
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Rare disease gene association discovery in the 100,000 Genomes Project - Nature
A rare variant burden analytical framework for Mendelian diseases was developed and applied to data from the 100,000 Genomes Project, identifying 69 probable new disease–gene associations.
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Children's Hyperinsulinism Charity UK and Ireland @chcharityuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
New Research: Large copy number variants are an important cause of congenital hyperinsulinism that should be screened for during routine testing www.frontiersin.org/journals/end...?
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Frontiers | Large copy number variants are an important cause of congenital hyperinsulinism that should be screened for during routine testing
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