#Genotype

Ahmed M. UMAR. MD🇳🇬

Many reasons make some people to run away when they hear a potential spouse is SS.Some is based on their personal experience with someone they know who is a sickle

A few things you need to know about Malaria:If your genotype is AA you are at risk of severe malariaGenotype AS offers some sort of protection against malariaGenotype AC also

Do you guys know your sickle cell genotype? Please complete this poll... RT when you do. It looks like majority of the voters so far do not know their genotype...

A quick poll for the evolution peeps. Is fitness a phenotype? For me "of course it isn't". Phenotype for me is the physical manifestation of the organism that determines its

Dr Chioma Nwakanma

I can’t count the no of lies patients have told me.I remember the first. Had a leg ulcer. I had ruled out every possible cause, during my clerking, then I

Sports Dokita (Odogwu 👆)

It was my 2nd week at work when this teenage girl was rushed in, mere looking at her, you would know she was a sickle cell warrior..She was almost white,

Happy to share my first solo academic article, a mini-review now out on preprints:https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202008.0289/v1Like the boggarts popularized by Rowling, non-genetic changes are rapid and reversible. One way they can im

9 tests you should do before you sign your marriage certificate1. HIV2. Hepatitis B3. Hepatitis C4. Other STI's5. Genotype 6. Rhesus7. Fertility profile8. Chronic medical conditions9. Covid19A thread {Share

🩺Lara🩺20.10.2020⚫️

PSA blood groups and genotype thread for those that are interested. They are 2 different things. A bit detailed but u can read it in bits so u don’t

Eric Turkheimer

This, from @mendel_random and others. The authors show that correlations between genotype and phenotype (ie, heritability) can arise from at least 4 sources (there are more). Actual genetic causation is

Love, Sickle cell disease and Chorionic villus sampling. Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) is a prenatal test in which a sample of chorionic villi is removed from the placenta for

I want to talk about a toy model for reasoning about what viral genomics can and cannot tell us about #SARSCoV2 transmission.Suppose viral isolates from two people have *identical* genotypes.

Santos Akhilele 🇳🇬

Finding out Laycon was of the genotype SC, hurt me in ways that I could never have guessed. To think he could have played that card all this time. To

Friendly Neighborhood Doctor

You have heard people with sickle cell anemia talk about having "crisis". Do you understand what "crisis" mean?#SickleCellAwareness Let's take it back a bit. #SickleCell isn't an attack from your

In need of some lockdown reading? @nm_davies @explodecomputer @mendel_random and I have a new paper exploring how population level mechanisms may inflate genetic associations and bias conclusions: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/16/eaay0328

Observation. Since moving into the neurological disease field, I've found that many (reviewers!) feel that animal models need to precisely phenocopy human symptoms to be 'valid'. A brief thread on