Genepod is the podcast from the journal Genetics in Medicine, produced in association with Nature Publishing Group. Join us as we delve into the latest research in medical genetics and genomics, featuring highlighted content from this leading journal.
Identifying the underlying genetic cause of kidney failure in patients awaiting transplant can impact donor choice and lead to changes in management a...
While Fragile X syndrome is the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability, it is still underdiagnosed in the general population. As the p...
Universal newborn screening has been successful at improving treatment and decreasing morbidity and mortality for a number of childhood diseases. Rece...
All too often, genomic testing in patients with undiagnosed disorders results in the finding of variants of unknown significance (VUS). This leaves th...
A lack of research on how diverse communities experience genomic medicine and integrate genetic knowledge into their understanding of and decision mak...
The field of medical genetics and genomics has a complex and troubling history vis-a-vis racist ideologies—Carl Linnaeus divided humanity into four “v...
In newborn screening tests, after a first-tier abnormal screening result, single gene or multi-gene testing panels are often utilized as second- or th...
While newborn screening is gradually expanding in many states in the U.S. and other countries to include some members of a class of diseases known as ...
Barth syndrome, an exceedingly rare genetic condition that affects only males, causes heart disease and immune deficiencies–and there’s no known treat...
Could genome sequencing be used to prospectively identify people at high risk for having a genetic disorder? And, could this enable early multidiscipl...