Benjamin Solomon

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NHGRI’s Clinical Director @BenjaminSolomo2 first fell in love with genetics and genomics in the 7th grade. In medical school, he admired geneticists who were determined to help diagnose patients.

@genome_gov @RenMontooth @spencercodes Also, for someone just getting into the field (including students without a lot of coding background), what are the best resources to learn more?

@genome_gov @RenMontooth (Breaking my Twitter hiatus for this - didn't take long!) @spencercodes, with all the big, exciting things going on in AI these days, which models and approached do you think are going to have the biggest impact in genetics and genomics in the future? #MLinGenomics

Spencer Hong (@spencercodes) here! I’m taking over the @genome_gov account for the next hour to answer some questions about my research. I will discuss using machine learning to uncover the history of genomics, common misconceptions about this work and more! #MLinGenomics

@acedens Yes - I'm still pretty dumb about Mastodon (and most other things, come to think of it), but here's the link: genomic.social/home From @Psy_Fer_

@BenjaminSolomo2 There’s a genomics server?

@pnatarajanmd @nytopinion Such an inspiring piece and such an amazing person.

Incredible career and legacy. “… extraordinary things can happen when science and politics work hand in hand.” nytimes.com/2022/12/10/opi… @nytopinion

Here, I said it and I am saying it again.

"Unless things change dramatically, the millions of people #CRISPR could save will never benefit from it. We must, and we can, build a world with #CRISPR for all." #healthjustice @igisci @nytimes nytimes.com/2022/12/09/opi…

Also tagging @CedrikNT, who wrote a great section on “The Future of Dysmorphology: A Global Perspective”

This was a very fun project to work on: I asked a number of colleagues to discuss their thoughts (and hopes) regarding the way the field of dysmorphology may evolve. @acedens @KrawitzPeter @shahida_moosa onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

.@Genome_gov’s Cynthia Tifft runs a gene therapy clinical trial for children with GM1 gangliosidosis. Fewer than 5% of rare disorders have effective treatments, but after working with her young patient Jojo, Cynthia’s team has treated 10 more children with this condition.

Q425 answer: 5

Q425 Out of 100 people with pathogenic variants in a certain gene, 50 develop heart disease; out of 100 people without pathogenic variants in that gene, 10 develop heart disease. What is the relative risk of heart disease in people with pathogenic variants in that gene?

@BoiseGenetic @BoiseStateCOHS @BoiseStateAHS @BoiseState @JenEichmeyer @GenCounsNews Awesome!

Super cool article by @genome_gov colleagues on the genetics of dog behavior (one fascinating thing they saw: "a sheepdog-associated enrichment for interrelated axon guidance functions") cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

@splon @3rsCardioGC @ColorGenomics Good point!

@BenjaminSolomo2 @3rsCardioGC However for AllofUs there was extensive work done with the public by @ColorGenomics and “change” really confused people. What changed? Can it change back?

Okay, #genechat - I'm editing a booklet that will go in hospitals nationwide. I went through and changed 'mutation' to 'variant' and ensured it was understandable - thought that was what we were doing now. With the recent conversations here, wondering... should I:

@MuinJKhoury @GIMJournal Very nice and informative article. I heartily agree with the sentiment that medical geneticists should be involved in diagnostics as well as management, and should especially focus on the latter in the present and future.

Medical Genetics and Rare Disease Therapeutics: An informative @GIMJournal commentary on the emergence of various therapies for patients with genetic disorders and the role of medical geneticists. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A good joke my son told me (he may have come up with this himself in bio class): What did chlorophyll call their imaginary friend? A pigment of their imagination. Here's a DALL-E 2 picture we made of "an oil painting of a fancy chloroplast in a suit"

What’s heavier: a protein or the mRNA that encodes it?