Autism diagnosis disparities informed by genetics research
John Constantino, MD, and colleagues discussed the social implications surrounding identifying and diagnosing black children with autism spectrum disorder in a November article in the St. Louis American. Citing a report from the Center for Disease Control’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, they note that African American children are diagnosed later (at approximately 4 years) […]
Probiotics for children with acute gastroenteritis
A recently published article in The New England Journal of Medicine by Schnadower and colleagues reported the results from a blinded, randomized clinical trial conducted to determine if probiotics were an effective treatment for acute gastroenteritis in young children. Dr. Phil Tarr, a pediatric gastroenterologist and precision medicine researcher was a co-author on the paper. […]
Review of Sundaram et. al. Nature Genetics 2018
In the practice of precision medicine, the accurate filtering of common and rare missense variants of benign consequence remains an unsolved problem. Sundaram et. al. using an identity by state model attempt to infer a variants clinical importance by using their prevalence in the genomes of our close relatives, non-human primate (NHP) species. In human, […]
Newly launched website with resources from ICTS Precision Medicine!
Welcome! The ICTS Precision Medicine function leadership is excited to announce the launch of their new website. We have included many genomic resources and ICTS Precision Medicine services specifically to facilitate and support genomic/precision medicine researchers. We will be updating the calendar of events routinely with opportunities to attend or participate in precision medicine outreach. […]