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Special Issue just released of @WileyBiomedical Human Mutation “Matchmaker Exchange: Seven Years of Discovery and Collaboration” guest edited by Drs. Kym Boycott, @AdaHamosh and @HeidiRehm
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/… (1/18)
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A new, rare genetic disorder is the 1st human disease caused by loss of one copy of a long noncoding RNA gene. The family of Emma Broadbent, the first person diagnosed with the CHASERR-related disorder, was instrumental in the discovery & her diagnosis. broad.io/Chaserr
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Excited to report our study in @NEJM on the discovery of deletions in a long noncoding RNA gene 🧬 (𝘊𝘏𝘈𝘚𝘌𝘙𝘙) as the cause of a newly defined human neurodevelopmental disorder 🧠. 🧵1/10 nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Growing up with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease motivated Prof James Lupski (@LupskiLab) to pursue a #career in #genetics. Read the inspiring story of how researchers in his #clinical #genomics lab discovered the gene responsible for James’ genetic condition: futurumcareers.com/the-human…
“Genomics4RD: An integrated platform to share Canadian deep-phenotype and multiomic data for international rare disease gene discovery” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… reports on @C4RCanada web-accessible platform sharing Canadian phenotypic & multiomic data between researchers (17/18)
Thank you to all contributors to the special issue! Visit matchmakerexchange.org to learn more about Matchmaker Exchange and how it may fit into your work. There are many more gene-disease relationships yet to be discovered. (18/18)





