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  1. Apr 2025
    1. Disease: Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) pruriginosa *Note: A novel vwf variant was found in this patient with these other variants in COL7A1 gene

      Patient(s): 17 YO Korean male

      Variant: VWF NM_000552.5: c.3310C>T p. (R1101W) Located in exon 26

      Hadn't been reported previously Variant found to be inherited in trans from family analysis

      According to the paper, they have classified with with ACMG guidelines as likely pathogenic.

      Reasoning: Variant absent in the Korea Ref Genome Database and Allele Freq = 0.00086% in gnomAD (Evidence: PM2)

      Variant detected in trans with another well-known pathologic variant (c.5797C>T) (Evidence: PM3)

      Multiple missense variants are known to be pathogenic in RDEB (Evidence: PP2)

      Various computational in silico predictive programs reported the variant as pathogenic (Evidence PP3)

    1. Disease: Von-willebrand Disease (Type 2A)

      Patient: 50 yo female

      Variant: VWF NM_000552.5 c:4232_4249del p.(Val411_Ile416del), Exon 28, heterozygous variant

      According to this paper, ACMG-AMP guidelines for interpreting this variant resulted in classification of likely pathogenic

      Phenotypes: increased bruising, fatigue, recurrent sinusitis, menorrhagia, neutropenia, anaemia. Reduction in high-molecular-weight multimers

      Family: segregation analysis showed two affected family members had the variant and two unaffected family members did not have variant.

      Note: Patient also has diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) NM_000546.6(TP53):c704A>G p.(Asn235Ser), listed as VUS and found by NGS

  2. Dec 2024
  3. Apr 2022
    1. Kai Kupferschmidt. (2021, December 1). If you’re curious how likely #omicron is to have spread from South Africa or Botswana to different places, @DirkBrockmann and colleagues have done some interesting calculations based on the world aviation network from 08/2021 You can see that US seems a very likely destination https://t.co/OSnZ6ZNble [Tweet]. @kakape. https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1466107074585239568

    2. Kai Kupferschmidt. (2021, December 1). @DirkBrockmann That percentage number tells you “how likely an infected passenger from South Africa or Botswana travels to each country and exits the airport there”. So: “0.9% in Germany means that out of 1000 such individuals, 9 are expected to have Germany as their final destination.” [Tweet]. @kakape. https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1466107478807097354

  4. Mar 2021
  5. Jul 2020
    1. Matz, alas, I cannot offer one. You see, Ruby--coding generally--is just a hobby for me. I spend a fair bit of time answering Ruby questions on SO and would have reached for this method on many occasions had it been available. Perhaps readers with development experience (everybody but me?) could reflect on whether this method would have been useful in projects they've worked on.
  6. Nov 2019
  7. Oct 2019
    1. Since you’re probably in the same situation, I thought I’d share what I’ve learned with you

      Of course.

  8. Mar 2017