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Tychele Turner

@tycheleturner.bsky.social
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PI & Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis Precision Genomics ➡️ Genomic Configurations

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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Celebrating my 40th birthday today! 🎉 Feeling grateful for the people, experiences, and opportunities that have shaped my journey. Looking forward to a new decade of learning, discovery, and meaningful impact! I am also excited to share my newly updated Turner Lab website: turnerlab.wustl.edu
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Turner Lab
A website by WashU Sites
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Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource Center @kidsfirstdrc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Tychele Turner, PhD at #WashUMedicine, shares how her team developed genomic analysis tools in #CAVATICA and made them available to others. Sept. 17: monkeylink.co/b397cb #KidsFirstDRC #Genomics
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today is International 9p Minus Awareness Day 💙 Raising awareness and celebrating the incredible 9p Minus community. #9pMinus #9pMinusAwarenessDay #TNTurnerLab @washugenetics.bsky.social
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New opportunities in the @TNTurnerLab: • Postdoctoral Fellows (9p, computational genomics of autism, neuroscience) • Graduate student research opportunities • Undergraduate research opportunities Details and current openings are available on our Employment page (turnerlab.wustl.edu/employment/).
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Turner Lab at WashU is looking for a postdoc to work on chromosome 9p deletion and duplication syndromes. Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... #9p #genetics
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Genetics
Location ST. LOUIS, MO 63110 Position Summary The Postdoctoral Researcher will support a multidisciplinary research program focused on understanding the genomic and molecular mechanisms underlying 9p-...
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SPARK NS @sparkns.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🔔The SPARK NS Learning Center is now available to all researchers interested in or currently developing therapeutics for autism, Parkinson’s, and adjacent conditions. Researchers working in other areas can also request access. *It’s free!* Learn more and request access: na2.hubs.ly/H06n27-0
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Sharing my perspective "What Comes After Precision Genomics? Genomic Configurations," now available on Zenodo, Thoughtful comments and constructive criticism are welcome. For more substantive discussion, please feel free to contact me directly by email. zenodo.org/records/2126... #genetics #genomics
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What Comes After Precision Genomics?
What Comes After Precision Genomics? Genomic Configurations A Perspective   Tychele N. Turner, Ph.D.Department of GeneticsWashington University School of MedicineCorrespondence: tychele@wustl.edu
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Rajiv McCoy @rajivmccoy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In work led by @lalli.bsky.social, we present recombination maps and a diverse haplotype reference panel (1000 Genomes Project) for the T2T-CHM13 human reference genome. These resources improve the accuracy of phasing and imputation, especially around common CNVs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A T2T-CHM13 recombination map and globally diverse haplotype reference panel improves phasing and imputation
The T2T-CHM13 complete human reference genome contains ~200 Mb of newly resolved sequence, improving read mapping and variant calling compared to GRCh38. However, the benefits of using complete refere...
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WashU Medicine Genetics @washugenetics.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@tycheleturner.bsky.social and the Turner lab were recently highlighted by the Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource Center kidsfirstdrc.bsky.social for developing CAVATICA genomic analysis tools that streamline the path from Kids First data access to analysis. kidsfirstdrc.org/turner-lab-t...
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Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource Center (@kidsfirstdrc.bsky.social)
The Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource Center (Kids First DRC) is a collaborative pediatric research effort with a goal to understand the genetic causes and links between childhood cancer and c...
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Excited to share a new paper on sex-aware genome-wide assessment of de novo variants (DNVs) in autism. The complete DNV callset and supplementary analyses are available in the Supplement to the paper. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #genomics #genetics #denovo #autism @washugenetics.bsky.social
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Sex-aware genome-wide assessment of de novo variants in autism across coding and noncoding regions - Human Genomics
Human Genomics - Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) shows a consistent sex bias, yet how sex shapes de novo variant (DNV) risk across coding and noncoding sequence remains unclear. I analyzed DNVs...
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Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource Center @kidsfirstdrc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The faster you can analyze data, the faster discovery follows. New tools from The Turner Lab, led by tycheleturner at #WashU, are on #CAVATICA. Streamline how researchers analyze #KidsFirstData and help them turn discovery into insight faster. Explore how: monkeylink.co/7b09d7
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
❄️ Introducing SNOW - the Second-pass de Novo variant Offspring Workflow. A Python toolkit for cleaning, merging, phasing, and annotating de novo variants from trio sequencing data for QC and downstream analysis ☃️ github.com/tycheleturne... #genomics #bioinformatics #denovo
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GitHub - tycheleturner/snow: Second-pass de Novo variant Offspring Workflow
Second-pass de Novo variant Offspring Workflow. Contribute to tycheleturner/snow development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Outreach from @TNTurnerLab @washugenetics.bsky.social: We have built new state of the art #genomics software out of necessity for current research on neurodevelopmental disorders, and it’s proving useful beyond NDDs. First white paper out today: CNPI (zenodo.org/records/1884...) #GenomicsWhitePapers
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White Paper: "Copy Number Private Investigator (CNPI): making rare copy number changes usable at scale"
White Paper for CNPI TNTurnerLab, Washington University School of Medicine
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
WashU Rare Disease Day was wonderful today. Stephanie Snow-Gebel gave my favorite talk, and this quote really stuck with me: “Awareness is not vanity. It’s velocity!” 🔥 @rarediseaseday.bsky.social @pattidickson.bsky.social #SnowFoundation
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... #cochlea #ear #microscope
https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2012-photomicrography-competition/sound-receptor-hair-cells-in-the-inner-ear-cochlea-of-a-mouse
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Image of Distinction

2012 Photomicrography Competition

Sound receptor “hair cells” (bright green) in the inner ear cochlea of a mouse

James H. Nicholson
Dr. Hanian Lang, Dr. Sylvia Galloway
Affiliation
Coral Culture and Collaborative Research Facility
MUSC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS
Department of Pathology & Lab Medicine
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Technique
Confocal
Magnification
40x
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
"Mutations in the γ-Actin Gene (ACTG1) Are Associated with Dominant Progressive Deafness (DFNA20/26)" www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
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Mutations in the γ-Actin Gene (ACTG1) Are Associated with Dominant Progressive Deafness (DFNA20/26)
Age-related hearing loss (presbycusis) is a significant problem in the population. The genetic contribution to age-related hearing loss is estimated to be 40%–50%. Gene mutations that cause nonsyndrom...
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"Sex Limited Inheritance in Drosophila" #classic #genetics www.jstor.org/stable/1635471
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Sex Limited Inheritance in Drosophila on JSTOR
T. H. Morgan, Sex Limited Inheritance in Drosophila, Science, New Series, Vol. 32, No. 812 (Jul. 22, 1910), pp. 120-122
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"A novel homecage operant paradigm reveals circadian and behavioral dynamics of social motivation in mice" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"ModelArchive: A Deposition Database for Computational Macromolecular Structural Models" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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ModelArchive: A Deposition Database for Computational Macromolecular Structural Models
A wide range of applications in life science research benefit from the availability of three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules as th…
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
An analysis of nearly 3 million people in Sweden reveals that the sex disparity in children with autism decreases with age. Researchers continue to explore why women are often diagnosed later, given the value of early diagnosis. By @helenak.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/sex...
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Sex bias in autism drops as age at diagnosis rises
The disparity begins to level out after age 10, raising questions about why so many autistic girls go undiagnosed earlier in childhood.
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
How Gregor Mendel’s pea plant experiments created modern genetics www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
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The monk who discovered the laws of genetics—but was overlooked in his time
Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later.
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"Large-scale discovery of neural enhancers for cis-regulation therapies" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Award-winning and now on PBS 🎶
 Camp RicStar is the incredible story of a #music therapy camp created in honor of one of my best friend’s Eric “RicStar” Winter, and it’ll hit you right in the heart (in the best way). Also, my mom is featured in the documentary!
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Camp RicStar
Explore the remarkable story of a one-of-a-kind music camp for people with disabilities.
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
"Mislocalization of KCNQ2 Channels as a Pathogenic Mechanism in KCNQ2 Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy" www.jneurosci.org/content/46/3...
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Mislocalization of KCNQ2 Channels as a Pathogenic Mechanism in KCNQ2 Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy
KCNQ2 potassium channel variants are linked to developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE). However, the mechanisms by which pathogenic variants, especially those outside known hotspots, such as ...
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"Molecular genotype-phenotype correlation in ACTB- and ACTG1-related non-muscle actinopathies" www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
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Molecular genotype-phenotype correlation in ACTB- and ACTG1-related non-muscle actinopathies
Through systematic evaluation of 290 individuals with ACTB or ACTG1 variants, we delineate eight non-muscle actinopathies with distinct clinical profiles. Clear genotype-phenotype correlations, charac...
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"Biophysical simulation enables segmentation and nervous system atlas mapping for image first spatial omics" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Biophysical simulation enables segmentation and nervous system atlas mapping for image first spatial omics - npj Systems Biology and Applications
npj Systems Biology and Applications - Biophysical simulation enables segmentation and nervous system atlas mapping for image first spatial omics
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Transient activation of potent progenitor cells is required for spinal cord regeneration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"Unlocking Ethiopia’s genomic landscape and its global significance: a call for inclusive genomics research" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Unlocking Ethiopia’s genomic landscape and its global significance: a call for inclusive genomics research - Human Genomics
Human Genomics - Ethiopia, located at the intersection of Africa and Eurasia, is a hub of human genetic diversity and cultural richness. Its proximity to the Middle East has historically positioned...
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
"Recent advances in the neurogenomics of autism spectrum disorder" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Recent advances in the neurogenomics of autism spectrum disorder
Neurogenomics has provided exceptional insights into the genetic architecture underlying autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which is increasingly underst…
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
"δ-catenin haploinsufficiency is sufficient to alter behaviors and glutamatergic synapses in mice" www.ibroneuroscience.org/article/S030...
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δ-catenin haploinsufficiency is sufficient to alter behaviors and glutamatergic synapses in mice
At PSD, the N-cadherin-δ-catenin-ABP/GRIP complex functions as an anchor for GluA2. Heterozygous δ-catenin KO and G34S mice show impairments in social behavior and fear learning and memory. Only KO ha...
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A collaborator recently inspired me to revive plot-protein. The updated code is now on GitHub. Here is a link to the gallery of example protein plots: github.com/tycheleturne... #plotProtein #bioinformatics #genomics #protein #plot
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Video from the “ASHG 2025 Data Discovery Exchange, hosted by Kids First and INCLUDE” youtube.com/watch?v=g67z... #kidsfirstDRC #TNTurnerLab @washugenetics.bsky.social #genomics #genetics #denovo
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ASHG 2025 Data Discovery Exchange, hosted by Kids First and INCLUDE
YouTube video by Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource Center
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
HAT-FLEX is a caller-agnostic, drop-in trio DNV detection tool that operates directly on existing VCFs. If you have feedback, please email or DM me. Thanks. github.com/TNTurnerLab/... #genetics #genomics #denovo
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GitHub - TNTurnerLab/HAT-FLEX: Flexible Trio DNV detection on existing VCFs.
Flexible Trio DNV detection on existing VCFs. Contribute to TNTurnerLab/HAT-FLEX development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
New paper in @BiologyOpen: “Generation and characterization of a knockout mouse of an enhancer of EBF3.” @washugenetics.bsky.social @jacksonlab.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...
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Generation and characterization of a knockout mouse of an enhancer of EBF3
Summary: This study focuses on the generation and initial characterization of a knockout mouse for a region of noncoding, regulatory DNA that was previously implicated in autism.
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Wow, @github.com contributions look different today. No green. It looks like corn 🌽 Happy Halloween!
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
12/ We are just getting started The 9P-ARCH network is pursuing next steps to better understand these syndromes & their biology Thanks to all the families, collaborators, team members, & current funders & future potential donors who are making this all possible. Appreciate all of you! 😀 TNTurner
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
11/ Conclusions 🌍 We introduced the 9P-ARCH network This study is the largest & most comprehensive genomic analysis of 9p-related syndromes to date.
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
10/ Unexpected finding: 🧬 Individuals with 9p deletion syndrome show excess mitochondrial genome copy number. Raises new questions about mitochondrial involvement in these syndromes.
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
9/ Gene prioritization Using human variation + spatial transcriptomics, we identified 24 genes driving most cases of 9p deletion syndrome (83% of individuals).
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
8/ We found two late-replicating regions where most structural variant breakpoints occur. ➡️ Suggests replication-based issues are a major driver of structural variant formation in 9p deletion syndrome.
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
7/ Results 🔍 First detailed look at the genomic architecture of 9p syndromes. ✅ Found shared features & differences across individuals. 💻 Built a machine learning model to predict 9p deletion syndrome from WGS gene copy number data.
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
6/ Using our computational tools HAT and acorn, we also generated high-quality de novos from 5,824 autism trios (SPARK + SSC) and examined noncoding de novo variants on 9p
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
5/ We also updated denovo-db to v1.8 and it now includes 1,131,762 de novo variants from 72,794 trios.
 We tested for enrichment protein-coding de novo variants in genes on 9p using data from denovo-db
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
4/ We also built a new open-source computational tool: DiamondsDenovo 👉 Detects enrichment of de novo variants in genomic regions.
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
3/ Methods We formed the 9P-ARCH network (Advanced Research in Chromosomal Health) 📊 100 individuals from families with 9p syndromes 🔬 WGS for all, plus other genomic tech for subsets 🧮 Gene prioritization via human genetics data and statistical testing + mouse embryo spatial transcriptomics
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
2/ Background Until now, most work on 9p deletion & duplication syndromes relied on low-resolution methods (karyotypes, microarrays). They gave important first insights, but left many questions unanswered. Our study is the first large-scale whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of 9p syndromes.
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
1/ WashU research news; excited to share our new paper on Chromosome 9p Syndromes 🧬 Hope you take the time to read it. Here is the link: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @washugenetics.bsky.social
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Whole-genome sequencing reveals individual and cohort level insights into chromosome 9p syndromes - Genome Medicine
Background Previous genomic efforts on chromosome 9p deletion and duplication syndromes have utilized low-resolution strategies (i.e., karyotypes, chromosome microarrays). These studies have provided ...
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
❤️ link.springer.com/10.1186/s130...
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Whole-genome sequencing reveals individual and cohort level insights into chromosome 9p syndromes - Genome Medicine
Background Previous genomic efforts on chromosome 9p deletion and duplication syndromes have utilized low-resolution strategies (i.e., karyotypes, chromosome microarrays). These studies have provided ...
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Thank you to Dr. Evan Eichler for visiting #WashU and presenting in our Department of Genetics seminar series. An inspiring talk from one of my academic fathers! @washugenetics.bsky.social #genetics #genomics
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Tychele Turner @tycheleturner.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Big milestone for the @TNTurnerLab as our very first postdoc officially started this week! Welcome Arvinden to the team! @WashUGenetics #genomics #genetics #noncoding #mpra #postdoc
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