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The Late Show
Okay, so I admit to being a little obsessed with being on time for, well, everything in life. As I used to say to my kids when we traveled as a family, “If you don’t hurry up we are not … Continue reading
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Beyond Genetics: The Uses and Abuses of Recording Family Histories
The explanation of the present lies in the properties of the past. – Rebecca Cassidy, from “Arborescent Culture – Writing and Not Writing Racehorse Pedigrees” Pedigrees have long been the backbone of genetics. Not surprisingly, therefore, we tend to think … Continue reading
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I Can’t Unsee Jar Jar Binks in the NSGC’s DEIJ Presence
by Justin Lorentz Justin Lorentz is a certified genetic counselor who graduated from McGill University in 2012. He spent 8 years working in cancer genetics at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Canada where he developed an academic interest in prostate cancer … Continue reading
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Left, Right, Left, Right: Pedigree Standards March Into The Future (And Start To Leave Behind The Male Gaze)
Ka mua ka muri (Walk backwards into the future with your eyes fixed on the past) – Maori whakatauki (proverb) The NSGC Pedigree Standardization Task Force, of which I am a member, recently published updated guidelines for pedigrees, with a … Continue reading
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No Quibbling Over Sibling: Sisters and Brothers We Are One!
Gender-neutral language has evoked anything but neutrality. What with snide remarks about non-gendered pronouns and the politicized and contrived fears about how such language is a sinister plot to groom children for non-heterosexual behavior and non-binary gender identities, you would … Continue reading
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Acting In Bad Faith? A Proposed Religion-Based Genetic Counseling Training Program
As some DNA Exchange readers may know, Union University, a self-described Christ-centered school in Tennessee, is working to establish a faith-based genetic counseling training program. According to the school’s website, the program’s goal is “to train and equip excellent genetic counselors … Continue reading
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Unprofitable Genetic Testing Labs – The Size of the Loss, The Reasons for the Loss, and What It Means for Genetic Counseling and Genetic Counselors
By Katie Stoll, MS, Jessie Conta, MS, and Michael Astion, MD, PHD Genetic counseling is a critical part of the genetic services process, beyond just coordination and ordering of a genetic test. However, as the genetic counseling profession has grown … Continue reading
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FDA Approval of Voxzogo – An Unmet Medical Need?
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced approval of Voxzogo (vosoritide), a drug developed by BioMarin for the purpose of increasing growth in children with achondroplasia. The drug is approved for children five years of age and older … Continue reading
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Selective Amnesia, Part 2: Guardians of The Gene Pool
A few weeks ago in this space, drawing on the research of others, I wrote about how geneticists have created a collective memory of eugenics in which they put all the “bad” eugenics behind us after World War II and … Continue reading
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