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Zornitza Stark

@zornitza.bsky.social
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Clinical Geneticist, VCGS. Professor, University of Melbourne. Rare disease genomics. 🧬🇦🇺

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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What have we learned from >10K newborns in gNBS studies? 🇺🇸🇧🇪🇦🇺 🧬extraction from Guthrie cards is feasible ✅ screen positive rate is 1.6-3.7% We now need: 📈Scalability ⚖️ Equity 💰Cost effectiveness 🤓 Policy frameworks and implementation models @genomeseb.bsky.social @heidicope.bsky.social
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The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧬New from @zornitza.bsky.social & co! 📄 International experiences of genomic newborn screening: Lessons from over 10,800 newborns
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International experiences of genomic newborn screening: Lessons from over 10,800 newborns
This perspective summarizes early experiences from genomic newborn screening studies, totaling over 10,800 infants from the US, Belgium, and Australia. While these provide data on technical feasibilit...
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Nature Reviews Nephrology @natrevneph.nature.com · 20/07/2026
In August: Reviews on salt and CKD; ANCA-associated vasculitis; and organelle-specific autophagy, an Expert Recommendation on gene–disease relationships for glomerular phenotypes, plus Commentaries on reforms to facilitate collaboration; ocean health; and osteoporosis management bit.ly/4whZ2lG
Screenshot of the front cover of the August issue of Nature Reviews Nephrology
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Nature Medicine @natmed.nature.com · 02/07/2026
Talos, a new tool for the automated analysis of genomic data, demonstrates the feasibility and diagnostic utility of systematic re-analyses of data from large rare disease cohorts.
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Automated reanalysis of genomic data for rare disease diagnostics at scale - Nature Medicine
Talos, a new tool for the automated analysis of genomic data, demonstrates the feasibility and diagnostic utility of systematic reanalyses of data in rare diseases.
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
And thank you @eshg.bsky.social for giving us the opportunity to present Talos at the ESHG conference first 🙌
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
📣 Out now @naturemedicine.bsky.social 🧬🤖 👉 rdcu.be/fqasl Our automated reanalysis tool Talos enables broad adoption and delivers timely + equitable #raredisease #diagnosis at scale! ♻️ Runs monthly on >10K datasets 🎯High specificity 💰Low running costs 🤗Open source @dgmacarthur.bsky.social
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Caroline Wright @carolinefwright.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
What's the difference between MANE Select and MANE Plus Clinical transcripts? We systematically compare all 65 genes with both using @genomebrowser.bsky.social and @ensembl.org, highlighting implications for genomic diagnostics. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thank you @eshg.bsky.social #eshg2026 for another fabulous conference!! 🇸🇪🧬
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European Journal of Human Genetics @ejhg-journal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🚨Special Issue for #ESHG2026: “DNA in public health screening programmes” @eshg.bsky.social 🔹What should we screen for and report? 🔹What about uncertainty and harms? 🔹How can we deliver equitably and at scale? #Genomics #Screening #NewbornScreening 🔗 www.nature.com/collections/...
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DNA in public health screening programmes
The rapid technological progress makes it possible to use DNA testing in settings outside of clinical genetics services. This implies that public health ...
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European Society of Human Genetics @eshg.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Guillaume Canaud, Mendel Lecturer at #eshg2026! Professor Canaud is internationally recognised for his pioneering research into the molecular mechanisms of rare vascular disorders and for translating genetic discoveries into targeted therapies that are transforming patient care #Genetics #Genomics
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Brilliant ESHG Award Lecture by @tuuliel.bsky.social @eshg.bsky.social #eshg2026 highlighting the importance of building communal resources #genomics #openscience 👏👏👏
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Another great #genomic NBS workshop today at #eshg2026 @eshg.bsky.social Fantastic to see the focus shift towards HOW we do this! So much we need to scale up: public and professional engagement, infrastructure, workforce! While ensuring sustainability and equity 🧬👶🚀
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James Fasham @jamesfasham.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🧬 Suzi Walker, Genomics England Can RNAseq help solve more rare disease cases? RNAseq from 7,841 participants in the 100kgp Abberant splicing confirmed in >50% of known case - limited by expression in blood Also new candidate variants identified #ESHG2026
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Pilar Cacheiro @pilarcacheiro.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A Tucci: Prevalence of repeat expansion disorders. - Mutation freq ≠ disease freq: disease prevalence model using carrier freq - Pathogenic repeat expansions more freq in genomic databases than expected from clinical prevalence - Two main factors: under ascertainment+incomplete penetrance #eshg2026
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James Fasham @jamesfasham.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Wendy Chung (Columbia) GUARDIAN Study approach to genomic newborn screening Focus on childhood-onset conditions - high penetrance - effective interventions - clear evidence base 👀 high uptake >92% of optional additional testing in conditions where above less clear #ESHG2026
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Tom Wright @tomwrightuom.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
👋🧬 Welcoming address #eshg2026 @ahoischen.bsky.social @eshg.bsky.social 3,171 abstracts from 95 countries: 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇹🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸 et al 👥6,048 participants: 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️4,812 in person 💻 🖥️1,248 online ⛅️ Fascinating word cloud from all presentation titles 🇸🇪 It’s good to be in Gothenburg! #RareDisease #Genomics
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
👏👏👏 fantastic to see @nickywhiffin.bsky.social win the Leena Peltonen award at #eshg2026 @eshg.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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Agnes Caruso @agnescaruso.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This study is now being presented at #eshg2026
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Alex Hoischen @ahoischen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
To all attending #eshg2026: if you are ready to spent extra attention to detail throughout the entire conference, I recommend the informal ESHG bingo card. Brought by our great postdoc @lydiasagath.bsky.social @eshg.bsky.social First bingo gets a kanelbullar from me… tinyurl.com/eshgbingo2026
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ESHG 2026 BINGO
Play virtual ESHG 2026 BINGO with your friends for free on any device. Customize the bingo cards and generate printable or virtual bingo cards for free.
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James Fasham @jamesfasham.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Is your BlueSky a bit light on genetics content... Add these accounts 👇
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Really excited to be in Gothenburg 🇸🇪 for #eshg2026 looking forward to great science and to catching up with many friends and colleagues @eshg.bsky.social 🧬
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European Society of Human Genetics @eshg.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Welcome to the ESHG 2026 – #hybridconference! Join the conversation by using #eshg2026. With this hashtag you will also find the latest updates. See you at 8:30 CEST for the first sessions of today!
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 11/06/2026
Open science, altruism and impact: An interview with clinical geneticist @zornitza.bsky.social Read the interview here: go.nature.com/4aJsp7B
Open science, altruism and impact: An interview with clinical geneticist @zornitza.bsky.social
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🥳 Another great collaboration! New MOI for an established gene @diseasegenes.bsky.social these are always trickier to spot!
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Australia is leaving money put aside for medical research funding in the bank while our brightest minds head overseas and young researchers question their future in medical research.
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 30/04/2026
Check out the third in a blog series focused on researchers’ experiences with open science practices: Open science, altruism and impact: An interview with clinical geneticist Zornitza Stark go.nature.com/42DMsQt Thank you, @zornitza.bsky.social! 🙏
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Open science, altruism and impact: An interview with clinical geneticist Zornitza Stark | For Researchers | Springer Nature
Professor Zornitza Stark shares her experiences of open science practices and impact that open data sharing has on patients and their families.
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
‘Medical research isn't just good for our health, it's also great for our economy.’ In this Budget, the govt has to commit to spending money put aside for that purpose in the Medical Research Future Fund. Before we lose more brilliant minds overseas, before we damage the sector irrevocably.
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Dr Ali Compton-Stubbs @mitochondrially.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Proud to share this latest publication by our PhD student Dr Megan Ball on mainstreaming genomic testing for #mito disease in Australia. Pleasure collaborate with @zornitza.bsky.social @thorburnmito.bsky.social and John Christodoulou supporting Megan in her studies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mainstreaming genomic testing for mitochondrial disease in Australia - European Journal of Human Genetics
European Journal of Human Genetics - Mainstreaming genomic testing for mitochondrial disease in Australia
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
An impressive win resolving uncertainty for families and clinicians 🏆 work partly funded by the Australian Functional Genomics Network 🤩🇦🇺🧬🐟
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Fantastic opportunity and a brilliant team 🤩!
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Terrific to see this out! 10 years of variant interpretation courses delivered to >1000 participants 👏👏👏 And of course thoroughly evaluated 😁🇦🇺
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The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
📣New from Nisselle & co! 📄Variant interpretation training for the #genomics era: Learning outcomes to inform professional competencies and education
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Variant interpretation training for the genomics era: Learning outcomes to inform professional competencies and education
Clear professional competencies and career pathways in variant interpretation (VI) are lacking. We co-developed learning outcomes in VI and describe how these can inform education and competencies acr...
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The Medical Journal of Australia @mja.com.au · 04/12/2025
Adding genomic testing to newborn screening programs can expand them to cover hundreds of conditions and is getting closer to reality, with multiple pilot studies internationally publishing early results. Read more: buff.ly/7Of91pS
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Genomic Newborn Screening: Commodity or Public Good? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/... What's next for genomic NBS in Australia? Commercial testing? Publicly funded program? Large scale research to build capacity, infrastructure and evidence? We discuss the options & ethics ⚖️ @mja.com.au
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Genomic Newborn Screening: Commodity or Public Good?
Genomic newborn screening (gNBS) can screen for a broad range of genetic conditions, potentially enabling early treatment and improving health outcomes. However, it remains outside publicly funded pr...
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The government can’t claim that medical research is a priority while failing to treat it as one. Nine in 10 leading researchers in Australia are missing out on government support for world‑class proposals, leaving exceptional talent uncertain about their future.
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Most researchers miss out on innovation grants while medical fund sits on $25b
Nine in 10 Australian researchers had their “ideas grant” applications rejected last year, even as Australia’s medical investment fund sits on $5 billion more than it was designed to hold.
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Reading “The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing” theconversation.com/the-5-stages...
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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
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The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
📣 New from Anderson et al! 📄De novo variants in KDM2A cause a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder
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De novo variants in KDM2A cause a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder
De novo variants in KDM2A cause a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder with a phenotypic spectrum of mild to severe developmental delay, feeding difficulties, short stature, microcephaly, and recurre...
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Nature Medicine @natmed.nature.com · 02/12/2025
How can we measure the value of #genomics in #healthcare? How can #HTA, #implementation & data management be adapted to suit the rapidly evolving nature of genomics? For insights, read the Review from Zornitza Stark, Ilias Goranitis & colleagues. www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-…
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Determining the value of genomics in healthcare - Nature Medicine
Assessing the value of genomics is key to informing evidence-based policies; this Review outlines how current approaches to health technology assessment, implementation and data management can be adapted to suit the rapidly evolving technology and evidence base.
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Mike Hubank @generoom.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Does #genomics work? How do we know? Really thoughtful piece full of insights and proposals, highlighting the many positives - and some negatives - that need to be included in models of appraisal. At least one thing is clear: We the need to take the long view.
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Economics of Genomics and Precision Medicine Unit @eigen-uom.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Determining the value of genomics in healthcare” is now published in Nature Medicine. Led by A/Prof Ilias Goranitis, the paper brings together international co-authors to examine how the value of genomics can be assessed. Read the full article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ilias Goranitis @iliasgoranitis.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
In this Nature Medicine paper, we draw from our experiences in evaluating and implementing #genomics in Australia, Canada, England, Hong Kong and the US www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Determining the value of genomics in healthcare - Nature Medicine
Assessing the value of genomics is key to informing evidence-based policies; this Review outlines how current approaches to health technology assessment, implementation and data management can be adap...
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔥🔥🔥 Is genomics value for money??? 🧬💰 👉 How do we define it? 👉 Measure it? 👉 And deliver it? rdcu.be/eR243 @iliasgoranitis.bsky.social @stephaniebest.bsky.social @hadleyssmith.bsky.social @rich-genomics.bsky.social @jbuchanan-ox.bsky.social @rdexeter.bsky.social
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Determining the value of genomics in healthcare - Nature Medicine
Assessing the value of genomics is key to informing evidence-based policies; this Review outlines how current approaches to health technology assessment, implementation and data management can be adap...
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European Society of Human Genetics @eshg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New study of 800K+ genomes from gnomAD reveals most “pathogenic” variants in healthy people aren’t truly disease-tolerant. They are explained by annotation errors, mosaicism, or compensatory variants. 🧬 A big step for precision medicine! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Exploring penetrance of clinically relevant variants in over 800,000 humans from the Genome Aggregation Database - Nature Communications
Here the authors provide an explanation for 95% of examined predicted loss of function variants found in disease-associated haploinsufficient genes in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD),…
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Terrific to finally see this out @natgenet.nature.com, what a great collaboration to have been part of, massive congrats @noalipstein.bsky.social and team 👏👏👏
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Daniel MacArthur @dgmacarthur.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Awesome work by @zornitza.bsky.social and collaborators showing the immediate value of WGS for newborn screening in a cohort of 1,000 Australian babies. Now we need larger, more diverse cohorts to show this approach can achieve population scale!
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 10/10/2025
A study on genomic newborn screening found 1.6% of 1,000 infants had a high chance of a treatable genetic condition, only one of which was caught by standard screening. The model proved feasible, scalable, and highly acceptable to parents. 🧬💻 #MedSky
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Feasibility, acceptability and clinical outcomes of the BabyScreen+ genomic newborn screening study - Nature Medicine
The BabyScreen+ study offered genomic screening to 1,000 newborns in Australia, and showed that the approach is feasible and positively received by families, leading to molecular diagnoses in 1.6% of…
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Zornitza Stark @zornitza.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🤗 Out now @naturemedicine.bsky.social results of our genomic NBS study BabyScreen+ 👶🧬 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1,000 babies WGS using existing cards 600+ conditions 13 day TAT 16 diagnoses (vs 1 in std NBS) High clinical impact High parental acceptability
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IHEA Econ-Omics SIG @ihea-econ-omics.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🔔 Final chance! Take our global survey on building #healtheconomics capacity in #genomicmedicine. Takes approx. 15 mins. Open to everyone working in genomic medicine. Deadline: End of August. q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The UK Govt just released its 10 year plan for the NHS and it is legitimately ambitious and exciting. Genomic population health features heavily... on the cover even! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686638...
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Australian Genomics @ausgenomics.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
After a decade of collaboration and innovation, #AustralianGenomics has come to an end. A new national body, #GenomicsAustralia, was established on 1 July 2025 to provide leadership, coordination and expertise in health #genomics.
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Home — Australian Genomics
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